1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the collection and disposal of information pertaining
1-3 to a criminal combination.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 61.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-7 (d) A local criminal justice agency may send information
1-8 collected under this chapter to a regional database.
1-9 SECTION 2. Article 61.04(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-10 amended to read as follows:
1-11 (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 58 [Section 51.14], Family Code,
1-12 criminal information relating to a child associated with a
1-13 combination may be compiled and released under this chapter
1-14 regardless of the age of the child.
1-15 SECTION 3. Article 61.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-16 amended to read as follows:
1-17 Art. 61.06. DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS. (a) Except as provided
1-18 by Subsection (b), information [Information] collected under this
1-19 chapter must be destroyed after two years if the individual has not
1-20 been charged with criminal activity.
1-21 (b) The information destruction requirements of Subsection
1-22 (a) are suspended until September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies to
1-24 criminal information, as that term is defined by Article 61.01,
2-1 Code of Criminal Procedure, without regard to whether the
2-2 information originated or was first compiled before, on, or after
2-3 the effective date of this Act.
2-4 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2874 was passed by the House on May
10, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2874 on May 24, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2874 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor