By: Combs H.B. No. 2231
73R6332 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to access to files and records of delinquent children and
1-3 children in need of supervision by military recruiters.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.14(d), Family Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (d) Except for files and records relating to a charge for
1-8 which a child is transferred under Section 54.02 of this code to a
1-9 criminal court for prosecution, the law-enforcement files and
1-10 records are not open to public inspection nor may their contents be
1-11 disclosed to the public, but inspection of the files and records is
1-12 permitted by:
1-13 (1) a juvenile court having the child before it in any
1-14 proceeding;
1-15 (2) an attorney for a party to the proceeding; <and>
1-16 (3) law-enforcement officers when necessary for the
1-17 discharge of their official duties; and
1-18 (4) recruiters for the armed forces of the United
1-19 States authorized by federal law to obtain information necessary
1-20 for recruitment.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.