1-1 By: De La Garza, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 247
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 1993;
1-3 April 1, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 4, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 4, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the notification of certain statewide and national
1-18 criminal information systems when a warrant is issued for a
1-19 juvenile.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Section 51.14(c), Family Code, as amended by
1-22 Section 4 of Chapter 385, Section 3 of Chapter 515, and Section 1
1-23 of Chapter 576, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session,
1-24 1987, is amended to read as follows:
1-25 (c) Except as provided by this subsection, law-enforcement
1-26 files and records concerning a child shall be kept separate from
1-27 files and records of arrests of adults and shall be maintained on a
1-28 local basis only and not sent to a central state or federal
1-29 depository. The <However, the> law-enforcement files and records
1-30 of a person who is transferred from the Texas Youth Commission to
1-31 the Texas Department of Corrections under a determinate sentence
1-32 may be transferred to a central state or federal depository for
1-33 adult records on or after the date of transfer. If a child has
1-34 been reported as missing by a parent, guardian, or conservator of
1-35 that child, <or a child> has escaped from the custody of a juvenile
1-36 detention facility, the Texas Youth Commission, or any other agency
1-37 to which the child has been committed, or is the subject of a bench
1-38 warrant or felony arrest warrant issued by a court after the child
1-39 has fled the jurisdiction of the court, any information or records
1-40 concerning that child may be transferred to and disseminated by the
1-41 Texas Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information
1-42 Center.
1-43 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-48 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-49 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-50 * * * * *
1-51 Austin,
1-52 Texas
1-53 May 4, 1993
1-54 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-55 President of the Senate
1-56 Sir:
1-57 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-58 No. 247, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-59 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-60 pass and be printed.
1-61 Whitmire,
1-62 Chairman
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1-64 WITNESSES
1-65 FOR AGAINST ON
1-66 ___________________________________________________________________
1-67 Name: Judge Hal Gaither x
1-68 Representing: MUSCLE
2-1 City: Dallas
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2-3 Name: Sabrina Foster x
2-4 Representing: Mayor and City Council Houston
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2-7 Name: Mary Poss x
2-8 Representing: MUSCLE
2-9 City: Dallas
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2-11 Name: Sandy Kibby x
2-12 Representing: Texas PTA
2-13 City: Austin
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