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.