88R4045 CJD-F
 
  By: Smith H.B. No. 3956
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the creation of DNA records for a person arrested for a
  felony offense and the expunction of DNA records in certain
  circumstances.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 55.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  For purposes of this article, records and files relating
  to an arrest include:
               (1)  a DNA record created under Subchapter G, Chapter
  411, Government Code;
               (2)  any record of the collection of the specimen from
  which the DNA record was created; and
               (3)  any record of the transfer of the specimen to the
  Department of Public Safety.
         SECTION 2.  Section 3(c), Article 55.02, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  When the order of expunction is final, the clerk of the
  court shall send a certified copy of the order to the director of
  the Department of Public Safety for purposes of Section 411.151,
  Government Code, to the Crime Records Service of the department,
  [Department of Public Safety] and to each official or agency or
  other governmental entity of this state or of any political
  subdivision of this state named in the order.  The certified copy of
  the order must be sent by secure electronic mail, electronic
  transmission, or facsimile transmission or otherwise by certified
  mail, return receipt requested.  In sending the order to a
  governmental entity named in the order, the clerk may elect to
  substitute hand delivery for certified mail under this subsection,
  but the clerk must receive a receipt for that hand-delivered order.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 411.1471(a), (b), and (e), Government
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies to a defendant who is:
               (1)  arrested for any offense punishable as a felony
  [prohibited under any of the following Penal Code sections:
                     [(A)  Section 19.02;
                     [(B)  Section 19.03;
                     [(C)  Section 20.03;
                     [(D)  Section 20.04;
                     [(E)  Section 20.05;
                     [(F)  Section 20.06;
                     [(G)  Section 20A.02;
                     [(H)  Section 20A.03;
                     [(I)  Section 21.02;
                     [(J)  Section 21.11;
                     [(K)  Section 22.01;
                     [(L)  Section 22.011;
                     [(M)  Section 22.02;
                     [(N)  Section 22.021;
                     [(O)  Section 25.02;
                     [(P)  Section 29.02;
                     [(Q)  Section 29.03;
                     [(R)  Section 30.02;
                     [(S)  Section 31.03;
                     [(T)  Section 43.03;
                     [(U)  Section 43.04;
                     [(V)  Section 43.05;
                     [(W)  Section 43.25; or
                     [(X)  Section 43.26]; or
               (2)  convicted of an offense:
                     (A)  under Title 5, Penal Code, [other than an
  offense described by Subdivision (1),] that is punishable as a
  Class A misdemeanor [or any higher category of offense], except for
  an offense punishable as a Class A misdemeanor under Section 22.05,
  Penal Code; or
                     (B)  punishable as a Class A or B misdemeanor, as
  applicable, under Section 21.08, 25.04, [43.021,] or 43.24, Penal
  Code.
         (b)  A law enforcement agency booking [arresting] a
  defendant described by Subsection (a)(1), immediately after
  fingerprinting the defendant and at the same location as the
  fingerprinting occurs, shall require the defendant to provide one
  or more specimens for the purpose of creating a DNA record.
         (e)  As soon as practicable after the [Notwithstanding
  Subsection (d), on] acquittal of a defendant described by
  Subsection (a)(1) or dismissal of the case against the defendant,
  or after a defendant [an individual] has been granted relief in
  accordance with a writ of habeas corpus that is based on a court
  finding or determination that the defendant [person] is actually
  innocent of a crime for which the defendant [person] was sentenced,
  the court shall provide notice of the acquittal, dismissal, or
  grant of relief to the law enforcement agency that took [taking] the
  specimen and the department and shall request that the director
  expunge the defendant's DNA record from the DNA database under
  Section 411.151. On receipt of the notice, the law enforcement
  agency shall immediately destroy the record of the collection of
  the specimen, and the department shall destroy the specimen and the
  record of its receipt.  The court shall promptly notify the
  defendant and the defendant's attorney after the notices required
  by this subsection have been provided [As soon as practicable after
  the acquittal of the defendant or the dismissal of the case, the
  court shall provide notice of the acquittal or dismissal to the
  applicable law enforcement agency and the department].
         SECTION 4.  Section 411.151(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The director shall expunge a DNA record of an individual
  from a DNA database if [the person]:
               (1)  the director receives:
                     (A)  an order of expunction under Article 55.02,
  Code of Criminal Procedure [notifies the director in writing that
  the DNA record has been ordered to be expunged under this section or
  Chapter 55, Code of Criminal Procedure, and provides the director
  with a certified copy of the court order that expunges the DNA
  record]; or
                     (B)  a request from a court under Section
  411.1471(e); or
               (2)  the person provides the director with a certified
  copy of a court order issued under Subchapter C-1, Chapter 58,
  Family Code, that seals the juvenile record of the adjudication
  that resulted in the DNA record.
         SECTION 5.  Section 411.151(b), Government Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 6.  Articles 55.01 and 55.02, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, as amended by this Act, apply only to an order of
  expunction of arrest records and files issued on or after the
  effective date of this Act, regardless of when the underlying
  arrest occurred.
         SECTION 7.  Section 411.1471, Government Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies only to an offense committed on or after the
  effective date of this Act. An offense committed before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense
  was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element
  of the offense occurred before that date.
         SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.