By Allen H.B. No. 1255
76R3111 JMC-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public access to certain conviction and arrest
1-3 information maintained by the Department of Public Safety.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 411.135(a), Government Code, as added by
1-6 Chapter 747, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) Any person is entitled to obtain from the department:
1-9 (1) any information described as public information
1-10 under Article 62.08, Code of Criminal Procedure [Section 5, Article
1-11 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes]; and
1-12 (2) criminal history record information maintained by
1-13 the department [that is a court record of a public judicial
1-14 proceeding and] that relates to[:]
1-15 [(A)] the conviction of or a grant of deferred
1-16 adjudication to a person for any criminal offense, including arrest
1-17 information that relates to the conviction or grant of deferred
1-18 adjudication[; or]
1-19 [(B) a grant of deferred adjudication to a
1-20 person charged with a felony offense].
1-21 SECTION 2. The Department of Public Safety shall implement
1-22 the system described by Section 411.135, Government Code, as
1-23 amended by this Act, not later than January 1, 2000.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.