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| 1 | 1 | By: West S.B. No. 1241 | |
| 2 | 2 | (Jackson) | |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to authorizing certain courts to access information in the | |
| 8 | 8 | juvenile justice information system. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 58.106, Family Code, is | |
| 11 | 11 | amended to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, | |
| 13 | 13 | information contained in the juvenile justice information system is | |
| 14 | 14 | confidential information for the use of the department and may not | |
| 15 | 15 | be disseminated by the department except: | |
| 16 | 16 | (1) with the permission of the juvenile offender, to | |
| 17 | 17 | military personnel of this state or the United States; | |
| 18 | 18 | (2) to a person or entity to which the department may | |
| 19 | 19 | grant access to adult criminal history records as provided by | |
| 20 | 20 | Section 411.083, Government Code; | |
| 21 | 21 | (3) to a juvenile justice agency; | |
| 22 | 22 | (4) to the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas | |
| 23 | 23 | Juvenile Probation Commission for analytical purposes; [and] | |
| 24 | 24 | (5) to the office of independent ombudsman of the | |
| 25 | 25 | Texas Youth Commission; and | |
| 26 | 26 | (6) to a county, justice, or municipal court | |
| 27 | 27 | exercising jurisdiction over a juvenile under Section 54.021. | |
| 28 | 28 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |