1. (a) This article does not apply to information collected under this chapter by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

2. (b) Subject to Subsection (c), information collected under this chapter relating to a criminal street gang must be removed after two years from an intelligence database established under Article 67.051 and the intelligence database maintained by the department under Article 67.052 if:

   1. (1) the information relates to the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity engaged in by a child; and

   2. (2) the child who is the subject of the information has not been:

      1. (A) arrested for criminal activity reported to the department under Chapter 66; or
      2. (B) taken into custody for delinquent conduct reported to the department under Chapter 58, Family Code.

3. (c) The two-year period described by Subsection (b) does not include any period during which the child who is the subject of the information is:

   1. (1) committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department for conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of felony; or
   2. (2) confined in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1058 (H.B. 2931), Sec. 1.04, eff. January 1, 2019.