TITLE 37.PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS

Part 1. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Chapter 27. CRIME RECORDS

Subchapter H. COMPUTERIZED CRIMINAL HISTORY SYSTEM

37 TAC §§27.101 - 27.106

The Texas Department of Public Safety adopts new §§27.101-27.106, concerning Computerized Criminal History System, without changes to the proposed text as published in the November 22, 2002, issue of the Texas Register (27 TexReg 10897).

The new sections are necessary to implement provisions of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 60, directing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Department of Public Safety to adopt procedures to ensure that offender processing data is reported from the time an offender is arrested until the time the offender is released and to provide measures and policies designed to identify and eliminate redundant reporting of information.

No comments were received regarding adoption of the new sections.

The new sections are adopted pursuant to Texas Government Code, §411.004(3), which authorizes the Public Safety Commission to adopt rules considered necessary for carrying out the department's work and Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 60.08.

This agency hereby certifies that the adoption has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on February 7, 2003.

TRD-200300944

Thomas A. Davis, Jr.

Director

Texas Department of Public Safety

Effective date: February 27, 2003

Proposal publication date: November 22, 2002

For further information, please call: (512) 424-2135