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	Amend CSHB 13 (house committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to read as follows and by 
renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Article 61.02(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, 
is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  Criminal information collected under this chapter 
relating to a criminal street gang must:
		(1)  be relevant to the identification of an 
organization that is reasonably suspected of involvement in 
criminal activity; and
		(2)  consist of:                                                       
			(A)  a judgment under any law that includes, as a 
finding or as an element of a criminal offense, participation in a 
criminal street gang;
			(B)  a self-admission by the individual of 
criminal street gang membership that is made during a judicial 
proceeding; or
			(C)  any two of the following:                                        
				(i) [(A)]  a self-admission by the 
individual of criminal street gang membership that is not made 
during a judicial proceeding;
				(ii) [(B)]  an identification of the 
individual as a criminal street gang member by a reliable informant 
or other individual;
				(iii) [(C)]  a corroborated identification 
of the individual as a criminal street gang member by an informant 
or other individual of unknown reliability;
				(iv) [(D)]  evidence that the individual 
frequents a documented area of a criminal street gang and[,] 
associates with known criminal street gang members;
				(v)  evidence that the individual[, and] 
uses, in more than an incidental manner, criminal street gang 
dress, hand signals, tattoos, or symbols, including expressions of 
letters, numbers, words, or marks, regardless of the format or 
medium in which the symbols are displayed, that are associated with 
a criminal street gang that operates in an area frequented by the 
individual and described by Subparagraph (iv); or
				(vi) [(E)]  evidence that the individual has 
been arrested or taken into custody with known criminal street gang 
members for an offense or conduct consistent with criminal street 
gang activity.
	SECTION ____.  Article 61.06(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, 
is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  In determining whether information is required to be 
removed from an intelligence database under Subsection (b), the 
three-year period does not include any period during which the 
individual who is the subject of the information is:
		(1)  confined in a correctional facility operated by or 
under contract with the [institutional division or the state jail 
division of the] Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
		(2)  committed to a secure correctional facility 
operated by or under contract with the Texas Youth Commission, as 
defined by Section 51.02, Family Code; or
		(3)  confined in a county jail or a facility operated by 
a juvenile board in lieu of being confined in a correctional 
facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Department of 
Criminal Justice or being committed to a secure correctional 
facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Youth 
Commission.
	SECTION ____.  Chapter 61, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended by adding Article 61.075 to read as follows:
	Art. 61.075.  RIGHT TO REQUEST EXISTENCE OF CRIMINAL 
INFORMATION.  (a)  A person or the parent or guardian of a child may 
request a law enforcement agency to determine whether the agency 
has collected or is maintaining under this chapter criminal 
information relating solely to the person or child.  The law 
enforcement agency shall respond to the request not later than the 
10th business day after the date the agency receives the request.
	(b)  Before responding to a request under Subsection (a), a 
law enforcement agency may require reasonable written verification 
of the identity of the person making the request and the 
relationship between the parent or guardian and the child, if 
applicable, including written verification of an address, date of 
birth, driver's license number, state identification card number, 
or social security number.