1-1     By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 625

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 17, 1997; February 20, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;

 1-4     April 3, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 3, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 625                 By:  Whitmire

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the dissemination of information contained in the

1-10     juvenile justice information system.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended by

1-13     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as

1-14     follows:

1-15           (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this section [Subsection

1-16     (b)], information contained in the juvenile justice information

1-17     system is confidential information for the use of the department

1-18     and may not be disseminated by the department except:

1-19                 (1)  with the permission of the juvenile offender, to

1-20     military personnel of this state or the United States;

1-21                 (2)  to a person or entity to which the department may

1-22     grant access to adult criminal history records as provided by

1-23     Section 411.083, Government Code;

1-24                 (3)  to a juvenile justice agency; and

1-25                 (4)  to the Criminal Justice Policy Council, the Texas

1-26     Youth Commission, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for

1-27     analytical purposes.

1-28           (c)  The department may, if necessary to protect the welfare

1-29     of the community, disseminate to the public the following

1-30     information relating to a juvenile offender who has escaped from

1-31     the custody of the Texas Youth Commission:

1-32                 (1)  the juvenile offender's name, including other

1-33     names by which the juvenile offender is known;

1-34                 (2)  the juvenile offender's physical description,

1-35     including sex, weight, height, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair

1-36     color, scars, marks, and tattoos;

1-37                 (3)  a photograph of the juvenile offender; and

1-38                 (4)  the conduct for which the juvenile offender was

1-39     committed to the Texas Youth Commission, including the level and

1-40     degree of the alleged offense.

1-41           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to

1-42     information contained in the juvenile justice information system

1-43     and collected by the Department of Public Safety of the State of

1-44     Texas before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.

1-45           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-46     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-47     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-48     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-49     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-50     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-51     passage, and it is so enacted.

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