By: West S.B. No. 1241

(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2011; March 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; March 30, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 30, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to authorizing certain courts to access information in the juvenile justice information system.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, information contained in the juvenile justice information system is confidential information for the use of the department and may not be disseminated by the department except:

(1) with the permission of the juvenile offender, to military personnel of this state or the United States;

(2) to a person or entity to which the department may grant access to adult criminal history records as provided by Section 411.083, Government Code;

(3) to a juvenile justice agency;

(4) to the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for analytical purposes; [and]

(5) to the office of independent ombudsman of the Texas Youth Commission; and

(6) to a county, justice, or municipal court exercising jurisdiction over a juvenile under Section 54.021.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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