1-1     By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1570
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2001; March 14, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 9, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the expunction of arrest records and files based on an
 1-9     acquittal.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 2, Article 55.02, Code of
1-12     Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A person who is entitled to expunction of records and
1-14     files under Article 55.01(a) [55.01(a)(1)(B) or 55.01(a)(2)] or a
1-15     person who is eligible for expunction of records and files under
1-16     Article 55.01(b) may file an ex parte petition for expunction in a
1-17     district court for the county in which the person was arrested or
1-18     in the county where the offense was alleged to have occurred.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-20     applies to the expunction of records and files relating to an
1-21     arrest regardless of whether the arrest occurred before, on, or
1-22     after the effective date of this Act.
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