Bill Text: TX HB694 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to access by certain military personnel to juvenile and criminal history information.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB694 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB694-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to access by certain military personnel to juvenile and criminal history information.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB694 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB694-Introduced.html
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| By: Phillips | H.B. No. 694 | |
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| relating to access by certain military personnel to juvenile and | ||
| criminal history information. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 58.204(b), Family Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) On certification of records in a case under Section | ||
| 58.203, the department may permit access to the information in the | ||
| juvenile justice information system relating to the case of an | ||
| individual only: | ||
| (1) by a criminal justice agency for a criminal | ||
| justice purpose, as those terms are defined by Section 411.082, | ||
| Government Code; [ |
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| (2) for research purposes, by the Texas Juvenile | ||
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| (3) with the permission of the individual, by military | ||
| personnel, including a recruiter, of this state or the United | ||
| States if the individual is an applicant for enlistment in the armed | ||
| forces. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.1410 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.1410. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD | ||
| INFORMATION: UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. (a) In this section, | ||
| "agency of the United States armed forces" means the United States | ||
| Army, the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the | ||
| United States Coast Guard, or the United States Air Force. | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsection (c), an agency of the United | ||
| States armed forces, including a recruiter for the agency, is | ||
| entitled to obtain from the department criminal history record | ||
| information maintained by the department that relates to a person | ||
| who is an applicant for enlistment in the United States armed | ||
| forces. | ||
| (c) An agency of the United States armed forces is entitled | ||
| to criminal history record information under Subsection (b) only if | ||
| the agency submits to the department a signed statement from the | ||
| applicant that authorizes the agency to obtain the information. | ||
| (d) Criminal history record information obtained by an | ||
| agency of the United States armed forces under Subsection (b) may | ||
| not be released to any person or agency except on court order or | ||
| with the consent of the person who is the subject of the criminal | ||
| history record information. | ||
| (e) An agency of the United States armed forces shall | ||
| destroy criminal history record information obtained under | ||
| Subsection (b) after the purpose for which the information was | ||
| obtained is accomplished. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
