Bill Text: TX HB1922 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to certain information to which a social study evaluator is entitled in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1922 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1922-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain information to which a social study evaluator is entitled in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1922 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1922-Introduced.html
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By: Thompson of Harris | H.B. No. 1922 |
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relating to certain information to which a social study evaluator | ||
is entitled in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship; | ||
providing a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 107, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 107.05145 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 107.05145. SOCIAL STUDY EVALUATOR ACCESS TO | ||
INVESTIGATIVE RECORDS OF DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE | ||
SERVICES; OFFENSE. (a) A social study evaluator appointed by a | ||
court is entitled to obtain from the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services a complete, unredacted copy of any | ||
investigative record regarding abuse or neglect that relates to any | ||
person residing in the residence subject to the social study. | ||
(b) Except as provided by this section, records obtained by | ||
a social study evaluator from the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services under this section are confidential and not | ||
subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code, or to | ||
disclosure in response to a subpoena or a discovery request. | ||
(c) A social study evaluator may disclose information | ||
obtained under Subsection (a) in the social study report only to the | ||
extent the evaluator determines that the information is relevant to | ||
the social study or a recommendation made under this subchapter. | ||
(d) A person commits an offense if the person discloses | ||
confidential information obtained from the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services in violation of this section. An offense under | ||
this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |