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.