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.