Bill Text: TX HB327 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the availability of information regarding convictions and deferred dispositions for certain fine-only misdemeanors.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-07 - Referred to State Affairs [HB327 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB327-Engrossed.html
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| By: Wu, Guillen | H.B. No. 327 | |
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| relating to a study on the availability of information regarding | ||
| convictions and deferred dispositions for certain fine-only | ||
| misdemeanors. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) The Office of Court Administration of the | ||
| Texas Judicial System shall conduct a study on how records | ||
| regarding Class C misdemeanors, other than traffic offenses, are | ||
| held in different Texas counties. | ||
| (b) The study shall address, with respect to each county: | ||
| (1) the public availability of Class C misdemeanor | ||
| conviction records; | ||
| (2) the public availability of any records relating to | ||
| a suspension of sentence and deferral of final disposition for a | ||
| Class C misdemeanor under Article 45.051, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure; | ||
| (3) the public availability of any records described | ||
| by Subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection that are related to a | ||
| child; | ||
| (4) whether public access to and availability of | ||
| records described by Subdivisions (1)-(3) have been expanded or | ||
| restricted by the county over time; | ||
| (5) whether local agencies holding records described | ||
| by Subdivisions (1)-(3) destroy those records; | ||
| (6) the reasons and criteria for any destruction of | ||
| records described by Subdivisions (1)-(3); and | ||
| (7) the retention schedule of each local agency | ||
| holding records described by Subdivisions (1)-(3), if the agency | ||
| routinely destroys the records. | ||
| (c) Not later than January 1, 2017, the Office of Court | ||
| Administration shall issue a report on the study required under | ||
| this section to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives, and the appropriate standing committees of the | ||
| house of representatives and the senate. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
