1-1     By:  Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - West)          H.B. No. 1583
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the confidentiality of certain juvenile records or
 1-9     files.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Sections 58.007(a) and (c), Family Code, are
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  This section applies only to the inspection and
1-14     maintenance of a physical record or file concerning a child and the
1-15     storage of information, by electronic means or otherwise,
1-16     concerning the child from which a physical record or file could be
1-17     generated and does not affect the collection, dissemination, or
1-18     maintenance of information as provided by Subchapter B. This
1-19     section does not apply to a record or file relating to a child that
1-20     is required or authorized to be maintained under the laws
1-21     regulating the operation of motor vehicles in this state or to a
1-22     record or file relating to a child that is maintained by a
1-23     municipal or justice court.
1-24           (c)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), law enforcement
1-25     records and files concerning a child and information stored, by
1-26     electronic means or otherwise, concerning the child from which a
1-27     record or file could be generated may not be disclosed to the
1-28     public and shall be:
1-29                 (1)  if maintained on paper or microfilm, kept separate
1-30     from adult files and records; [and]
1-31                 (2)  if maintained electronically in the same computer
1-32     system as records or files relating to adults, be accessible under
1-33     controls that are separate and distinct from controls to access
1-34     electronic data concerning adults; and
1-35                 (3)  maintained on a local basis only and not sent to a
1-36     central state or federal depository, except as provided by
1-37     Subchapter B.
1-38           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44     passage, and it is so enacted.
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