AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the dissemination of information contained in the

 1-2     juvenile justice information system.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended by

 1-5     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this section [Subsection

 1-8     (b)], information contained in the juvenile justice information

 1-9     system is confidential information for the use of the department

1-10     and may not be disseminated by the department except:

1-11                 (1)  with the permission of the juvenile offender, to

1-12     military personnel of this state or the United States;

1-13                 (2)  to a person or entity to which the department may

1-14     grant access to adult criminal history records as provided by

1-15     Section 411.083, Government Code;

1-16                 (3)  to a juvenile justice agency; and

1-17                 (4)  to the Criminal Justice Policy Council, the Texas

1-18     Youth Commission, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for

1-19     analytical purposes.

1-20           (c)  The department may, if necessary to protect the welfare

1-21     of the community, disseminate to the public the following

1-22     information relating to a juvenile offender who has escaped from

1-23     the custody of the Texas Youth Commission:

 2-1                 (1)  the juvenile offender's name, including other

 2-2     names by which the juvenile offender is known;

 2-3                 (2)  the juvenile offender's physical description,

 2-4     including sex, weight, height, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair

 2-5     color, scars, marks, and tattoos;

 2-6                 (3)  a photograph of the juvenile offender; and

 2-7                 (4)  the conduct for which the juvenile offender was

 2-8     committed to the Texas Youth Commission, including the level and

 2-9     degree of the alleged offense.

2-10           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to

2-11     information contained in the juvenile justice information system

2-12     and collected by the Department of Public Safety of the State of

2-13     Texas before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.

2-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 625 passed the Senate on

         April 17, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 625 passed the House on

         May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor