HB4628 - Relating to enhancement of the penalty for a felony conviction based on a juvenile delinquent conduct adjudication.

  89R10838 LHC-D     By: Moody H.B. No. 4628       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to enhancement of the penalty for a felony conviction   based on a juvenile delinquent conduct adjudication.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  The following provisions are repealed:                (1)  Section 51.13(d), Family Code; and                (2)  Section 12.42(f), Penal Code.          SECTION 2.  Section 51.13(a), Family Code, is amended to   read as follows:          (a)  Except as provided by Subsection [ Subsections (d) and ]   (e), an order of adjudication or disposition in a proceeding under   this title is not a conviction of crime.  Except as provided by   Chapter 841, Health and Safety Code, an order of adjudication or   disposition does not impose any civil disability ordinarily   resulting from a conviction or operate to disqualify the child in   any civil service application or appointment.          SECTION 3.  Section 58.260(a), Family Code, is amended to   read as follows:          (a)  A juvenile court may allow, by order, the inspection of   records sealed under this subchapter or under Section 58.003, as   that law existed before September 1, 2017, only by:                (1)  a person named in the order, on the petition of the   person who is the subject of the records;                (2)  a prosecutor, on the petition of the prosecutor,   for the purpose of reviewing the records for possible use [ :                      [ (A) ]  in a capital prosecution; or                      [ (B)     for the enhancement of punishment under   Section 12.42, Penal Code; or ]                (3)  a court, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,   or the Texas Juvenile Justice Department for the purposes of   Article 62.007(e), Code of Criminal Procedure.          SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act applies only   to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.     An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is   governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,   and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For the   purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the   effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred   before that date.          SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.