By: Moncrief S.B. No. 295
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the notification of certain statewide and national
1-2 criminal information systems when a warrant is issued for a
1-3 juvenile.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 51.14, Family Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) Except as provided by this subsection, law-enforcement
1-8 files and records concerning a child shall be kept separate from
1-9 files and records of arrests of adults and shall be maintained on a
1-10 local basis only and not sent to a central state or federal
1-11 depository. The law-enforcement files and records of a person who
1-12 is transferred from the Texas Youth Commission to the institutional
1-13 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice <Corrections>
1-14 under a determinate sentence may be transferred to a central state
1-15 or federal depository for adult records on or after the date of
1-16 transfer. If a child has been reported as missing by a parent,
1-17 guardian, or conservator of that child, has escaped from the
1-18 custody of a juvenile detention facility, the Texas Youth
1-19 Commission, or any other agency to which the child has been
1-20 committed, or is the subject of a bench warrant or felony arrest
1-21 warrant issued by a court <after the child has fled the
1-22 jurisdiction of the court>, any information or records concerning
1-23 that child may be transferred to and disseminated by the Texas
2-1 Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information Center.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.