By Naishtat H.B. No. 3139
76R5820 JMC-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the county in which a petition for expunction of
1-3 certain criminal records and files may be filed.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1(a), Article 55.02, Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person who is entitled to expunction of records and
1-8 files under this chapter may file an ex parte petition for
1-9 expunction in a district court for the county in which:
1-10 (1) the person [he] was arrested, without regard to
1-11 whether the person was arrested under a warrant of arrest; or
1-12 (2) the warrant of arrest was issued if the person was
1-13 arrested under a warrant.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.