TO: | Honorable Royce West, Chair, Senate Committee on Jurisprudence |
FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB528 by Turner, Sylvester (Relating to the restriction of access to the records and files of a child charged with or convicted of certain fine-only misdemeanor offenses.), As Engrossed |
The bill would expand confidentiality of records relating to a misdemeanor committed by child who is charged with or convicted of a fine-only misdemeanor offense other than a traffic offense. Current law provides that the records of a misdemeanor committed by a child are confidential if the child is convicted of and has satisfied the judgment for an offense; the bill would remove the requirement that a judgment be satisfied.
The bill would also make confidential records relating to a misdemeanor committed by a child whose conviction for a fine-only misdemeanor other than a traffic offense has been appealed, rather than requiring that it be affirmed.
Source Agencies: | 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 405 Department of Public Safety
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LBB Staff: | UP, CL, SD, KKR, ESi
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