88R13515 CJD-D
 
  By: Plesa, Bhojani, Bowers H.B. No. 5007
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to automatic expunction of arrest records and files for
  certain persons who are tried for an offense and subsequently
  acquitted.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1, Article 55.02, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1.  The [At the request of the acquitted person and
  after notice to the state, or at the request of the attorney for the
  state with the consent of the acquitted person, the] trial court
  presiding over the case in which the person was acquitted, if the
  trial court is a district court, a justice court, or a municipal
  court of record, or a district court in the county in which the
  trial court is located shall enter an order of expunction for a
  person entitled to expunction under Article 55.01(a)(1)(A) not
  later than the 30th day after the date of the acquittal. [On
  acquittal, the trial court shall advise the acquitted person of the
  right to expunction. The party requesting the order of expunction
  shall provide to the court all of the information required in a
  petition for expunction under Section 2(b).] The attorney for the
  acquitted person in the case in which the person was acquitted, if
  the person was represented by counsel, or the attorney for the
  state, if the person was not represented by counsel [or if the
  attorney for the state requested the order of expunction], shall
  prepare the order for the court's signature. If the trial court is
  not a district court, a justice court, or a municipal court of
  record, the trial court shall forward the proposed order, and all
  information required in a petition for expunction under Section
  2(b), to a district court in the county to proceed in the manner
  provided by this section.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act applies to the expunction of arrest
  records and files for a person entitled to that expunction under
  Article 55.01(a)(1)(A), Code of Criminal Procedure, before, on, or
  after the effective date of this Act, regardless of when the
  underlying arrest occurred.
         (b)  For a person who is entitled to expunction under Article
  55.01(a)(1)(A), Code of Criminal Procedure, based on an acquittal
  that occurred before the effective date of this Act,
  notwithstanding the 30-day time limit provided for the court to
  enter an automatic order of expunction under Section 1, Article
  55.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act, the court
  shall enter an order of expunction for the person as soon as
  practicable after the court receives written notice from any party
  to the case about the person's entitlement to the expunction.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.