By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 2211 76R8041 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain information that is exempt from the expunction 1-3 requirement. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Article 55.02, Code of Criminal 1-6 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (f) The requirement under Subsection (a) that an official, 1-8 agency, or entity return or obliterate records or files and delete 1-9 index references to records and files does not apply to records and 1-10 files maintained in an automated fingerprint identification system 1-11 that contains images of fingerprints, if: 1-12 (1) the official, agency, or entity deletes the index 1-13 pointer or pointers that allow access to the image maintained in 1-14 the system of the fingerprints of the petitioner; and 1-15 (2) the image maintained in the system of the 1-16 fingerprints of the petitioner contains no data, reference, or 1-17 other information linking the petitioner to the incident for which 1-18 the petitioner seeks expunction under this chapter. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.