Bill Text: TX HB1909 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the filing of applications for expunction of certain information contained in arrest records and files.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Referred directly to subcommittee by chair [HB1909 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1909-Introduced.html
| 88R1119 SHH-D | ||
| By: Anchía | H.B. No. 1909 | |
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| relating to the filing of applications for expunction of certain | ||
| information contained in arrest records and files. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2a(a), Article 55.02, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person who is entitled to expunction of information | ||
| contained in records and files under Article 55.01(d) may file an | ||
| application for expunction with the attorney representing the state | ||
| in the prosecution of felonies in the county in which: | ||
| (1) the person resides; or | ||
| (2) the offense was alleged to have occurred. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies to an expunction of information | ||
| contained in arrest records and files relating to any criminal | ||
| offense occurring before, on, or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
