Bill Text: TX SB330 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
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.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB330 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB330-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 330 | ||
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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 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 330 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 19, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 330 passed the House on | ||
| May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
