85R3572 JRR-F     By: Burton S.B. No. 325       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the procedure for expunction of arrest records and   files for certain persons who are tried for an offense and   subsequently acquitted.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 1, Article 55.02, Code of Criminal   Procedure, is amended to read as follows:          Sec. 1.  At the request of the acquitted person [defendant]   and after notice to the state, or at the request of the attorney for   the state, the trial court presiding over the case in which the   person [defendant] was acquitted, if the trial court is a district   court, or a district court in the county in which the trial court is   located shall enter an order of expunction for a person entitled to   expunction under Article 55.01(a)(1)(A) not later than the 30th day   after the date of the acquittal. On [Upon] acquittal, the trial   court shall advise the acquitted person [defendant] of the right to   expunction. The acquitted person or the attorney for the state   [defendant] shall provide to the district court all of the   information required in a petition for expunction under Section   2(b). The [attorney for the defendant in the case in which the   defendant was acquitted, if the defendant was represented by   counsel, or the] attorney for the state[, if the defendant was not   represented by counsel,] shall prepare the order for the court's   signature.          SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only   to the expunction of arrest records and files related to a criminal   offense for which the trial of the offense begins on or after the   effective date of this Act. The expunction of arrest records and   files related to a criminal offense for which the trial of the   offense begins before the effective date of this Act is governed by   the law in effect on the date the trial begins, and the former law is   continued in effect for that purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.