By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 1583 76R4111 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the confidentiality of certain juvenile records or 1-3 files. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 58.007(a) and (c), Family Code, are 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) This section applies only to the inspection and 1-8 maintenance of a physical record or file concerning a child and the 1-9 storage of information, by electronic means or otherwise, 1-10 concerning the child from which a physical record or file could be 1-11 generated and does not affect the collection, dissemination, or 1-12 maintenance of information as provided by Subchapter B. This 1-13 section does not apply to a record or file relating to a child that 1-14 is required or authorized to be maintained under the laws 1-15 regulating the operation of motor vehicles in this state or to a 1-16 record or file relating to a child that is maintained by a 1-17 municipal or justice court. 1-18 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), law enforcement 1-19 records and files concerning a child and information stored, by 1-20 electronic means or otherwise, concerning the child from which a 1-21 record or file could be generated may not be disclosed to the 1-22 public and shall be: 1-23 (1) kept separate from adult files and records, 1-24 including through the implementation of separate passwords or other 2-1 controls for information stored electronically; and 2-2 (2) maintained on a local basis only and not sent to a 2-3 central state or federal depository, except as provided by 2-4 Subchapter B. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.