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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