By Van de Putte                                       H.B. No. 1749
         76R5129 DAK-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the dissemination of information in the juvenile
 1-3     justice information system.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read
 1-7     as follows:
 1-8           (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this section,
 1-9     information contained in the juvenile justice information system is
1-10     confidential information for the use of the department and may not
1-11     be disseminated by the department except:
1-12                 (1)  with the permission of the juvenile offender, to
1-13     military personnel of this state or the United States;
1-14                 (2)  to a person or entity to which the department may
1-15     grant access to adult criminal history records as provided by
1-16     Section 411.083, Government Code;
1-17                 (3)  to a juvenile justice agency; [and]
1-18                 (4)  to the Department of Protective and Regulatory
1-19     Services;
1-20                 (5)  to the principal or assistant principal of a
1-21     public elementary or secondary school; and
1-22                 (6)  to the Criminal Justice Policy Council, the Texas
1-23     Youth Commission, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for
1-24     analytical purposes.
 2-1           (d)  The department may not provide information under this
 2-2     section to the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
 2-3     unless the department and the Department of Protective and
 2-4     Regulatory Services have a written agreement that:
 2-5                 (1)  limits the use of the information requested to
 2-6     purposes relating strictly to official business;
 2-7                 (2)  ensures the security and confidentiality of the
 2-8     information; and
 2-9                 (3)  provides sanctions for violations of the
2-10     agreement.
2-11           (e)  The department may not provide information under this
2-12     section to a principal or assistant principal of a public
2-13     elementary or secondary school unless the department and the school
2-14     have a written agreement that:
2-15                 (1)  limits the use of the information requested to
2-16     purposes relating strictly to official business of the school;
2-17                 (2)  ensures the security and confidentiality of the
2-18     information; and
2-19                 (3)  provides sanctions for violations of the
2-20     agreement.
2-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-27     passage, and it is so enacted.