By Rosson                                              S.B. No. 931
       74R2971 DAK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to interagency sharing of information concerning
    1-3  delinquent children who are serious habitual offenders; providing a
    1-4  penalty.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  SERIOUS HABITUAL OFFENDER COMPREHENSIVE ACTION
    1-7  PROGRAM.  (a)  A county may establish a committee composed of
    1-8  representatives of entities in the county concerned with delinquent
    1-9  children who are serious habitual offenders, including law
   1-10  enforcement agencies, school districts, juvenile justice agencies,
   1-11  prosecuting attorneys and courts, and social service agencies.  The
   1-12  committee shall provide for the sharing of information concerning
   1-13  the delinquent children among its member agencies.
   1-14        (b)  Any person or agency participating in good faith in the
   1-15  committee is not liable, either criminally or civilly, for
   1-16  exchanging information as provided by this Act.
   1-17        (c)  A person commits an offense if a person permits,
   1-18  assists, or encourages the unauthorized release of information
   1-19  contained in the reports and records of the committee.  An offense
   1-20  under this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-22  and the 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.