FINAL BILL REPORT

SB 5393

C 162 L 01

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Revising provisions relating to truancy records.

Sponsors:  Senators Long, Kline and Kohl‑Welles; by request of Administrator for the Courts.

Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections

House Committee on Juvenile Justice

Background:  The Judicial Information System currently contains information relating to juvenile truancy.  The courts have no need to maintain juvenile truancy records for a juvenile who has no other case history, after the juvenile is no longer subject to the compulsory attendance laws.

Summary:  The courts must remove juvenile truancy records when the juvenile involved is no longer subject to the compulsory attendance laws, and the juvenile has no other case history.

County clerks who are responsible for maintaining this information are not responsible for its unauthorized release by agencies or personnel over which they have no control, nor are they responsible for the accuracy of such information provided by litigants or others required to provide it.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate460

House    93 1 (House amended)

Senate    47 0 (Senate concurred)

Effective:  July 22, 2001