By: Frullo H.B. No. 3746
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing resources designed to combat crimes against
children, especially crimes regarding child exploitation and child
pornography trafficking involving the Internet.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 102, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Article 102.023 to read as follows:
Art. 102.023. COSTS RELATED TO CERTAIN INTERNET CRIMES
AGAINST CHILDREN. (a) In addition to other costs on conviction
imposed by this chapter, a person shall pay a cost of $10 on
conviction of an offense for which the defendant on conviction is
required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62.
(b) The clerk of the court shall transmit the costs
collected under this section to the comptroller for deposit in the
state treasury to the credit of a special fund known as the Internet
Crimes Against Children Fund. The fund consists of all costs
collected under this section, money appropriated directly to the
fund, and any other grants or gifts made to the fund. Money in the
fund many be appropriated only to support the administration of the
activities of the three existing Internet Crimes Against Children
(ICAC) task forces operating under the Attorney General and other
various law enforcement entities. The money from the fund shall be
disbursed so that approximately one-third of the fund goes to each
of the existing ICAC's.
SECTION 2. Chapter 402, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 402.02811 to read as follows:
Sec. 402.02811. ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENA FOR INVESTIGATION
OF CERTAIN OFFENSES INVOLVING EXPLOITATION OF MINOR. (a) The
Attorney General shall assist felony prosecutors in this state in
obtaining administrative subpoenas for the purposes of
investigating and prosecuting crimes involving the exploitation of
a minor.
(b) In any investigation relating to offenses involving the
sexual exploitation of a minor and on reasonable cause to believe
that an Internet service account has been used in the exploitation
or attempted exploitation of a minor, the attorney general or
district attorney may issue in writing and cause to be served a
subpoena requiring the production and testimony described by
Subsection (c).
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a subpoena issued
under this section is authorized to require the production of any
records or other documentation relevant to the investigation
including:
(1) name;
(2) address;
(3) local and long distance telephone connection
records, or records of session times and durations;
(4) length of service, including start date, and types
of service utilized;
(5) telephone or instrument number or other subscriber
number of identity, including any temporarily assigned network
address; and
(6) means and source of payment for such service,
including any credit card or bank account number.
(d) The provider of electronic communication service or
remote computing service may not disclose the following pursuant to
a subpoena but shall do so pursuant to a warrant issued by a court of
competent jurisdiction:
(1) in-transit electronic communications;
(2) account memberships related to internet groups,
newsgroups, mailing lists or specific areas of interest;
(3) account passwords; and
(4) account content to include:
(A) electronic mail in any form;
(B) address books, contact lists, or buddy lists;
(C) financial records;
(D) Internet proxy content or Internet history;
and
(E) files or other digital documents stored
within the account or pursuant to use of the account.
(e) At any time before the return date specified on the
subpoena, the person summoned may, in the appropriate court of the
county in which the person resides or does business, petition for an
order modifying or quashing the subpoena, or a prohibition of
disclosure by a court.
(f) A subpoena under this section must describe the objects
required to be produced and must prescribe a return date within a
reasonable period within which the objects can be assembled and
made available.
(g) If no case or proceeding arises from the production of
records or other documentation pursuant to this section within a
reasonable time after those records or documentation are produced,
the prosecuting attorney shall either destroy the records and
documentation or return them to the person who produced them.
(h) A subpoena issued under this section may be served by
any person who is authorized to serve process under the Texas Rules
of Civil Procedure and the subpoena shall be served in accordance
with those rules.
(i) Any information, records, or data reported or obtained
under a subpoena issued pursuant to this section is confidential
and may not be further disclosed unless in connection with a
criminal case related to the subpoenaed materials.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.