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.