Bill Text: TX SB47 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the availability of information regarding convictions and deferred dispositions for certain misdemeanors punishable by fine only.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB47 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB47-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 47 | ||
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| relating to a study on the availability of information regarding | ||
| convictions and deferred dispositions for certain misdemeanors | ||
| punishable by fine only. | ||
| 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 misdemeanors punishable by fine only, other than traffic | ||
| offenses, are held in different Texas counties. | ||
| (b) The study must address, with respect to each county: | ||
| (1) the public availability of conviction records for | ||
| misdemeanors punishable by fine only; | ||
| (2) the public availability of records relating to | ||
| suspension of sentence and deferral of final disposition under | ||
| Article 45.051, Code of Criminal Procedure, for misdemeanors | ||
| punishable by fine only; | ||
| (3) the public availability of records described by | ||
| Subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection that are related to a | ||
| child younger than 18 years of age; | ||
| (4) whether public access to and availability of | ||
| records described by Subdivisions (1)-(3) of this subsection have | ||
| been expanded or restricted by the county over time; | ||
| (5) whether local agencies holding records described | ||
| by Subdivisions (1)-(3) of this subsection destroy those records; | ||
| (6) the reasons and criteria for any destruction of | ||
| records described by Subdivisions (1)-(3) of this subsection; and | ||
| (7) the retention schedule of each local agency | ||
| holding records described by Subdivisions (1)-(3) of this | ||
| subsection, if the agency routinely destroys those records. | ||
| (c) Not later than January 1, 2019, 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, 2019. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 47 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 2, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 23, Nays 8. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 47 passed the House on | ||
| May 21, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 91, Nays 50, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
