90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Read 1st time January 12, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 13, 2000, and referred to the Committee on Civil and Administrative Law, January 27, 2000.
Reported from the Committee on Civil and Administrative Law February 17, 2000, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass. Taken up for Perfection April 12, 2000. Bill ordered Perfected and printed, as amended.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
To repeal section 210.865, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to the state juvenile information system, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 210.865, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 210.865 and 210.870, to read as follows:
210.865. The juvenile divisions of the circuit courts and the departments of social services, mental health, elementary and secondary education and health shall share information regarding individual children who have come into contact with, or been provided services by, the courts and such departments. The state courts administrator and the departments of social services, mental health, elementary and secondary education and health shall coordinate their information systems to allow for sharing of information regarding and tracking of individual children by the juvenile [court and] divisions of the circuit courts, the departments of social services, mental health, elementary and secondary education and health and school districts. [This section shall not be interpreted to repeal any existing laws which provide for the confidentiality of information.] All information received by a court, any department or any school district pursuant to this section shall remain subject to the same confidentiality requirements as are imposed on the department that originally collected the information.
210.870. 1. There is hereby established the "Juvenile Information Governance Commission".
2. The commission shall be composed of the following members:
(1) The director of the department of mental health;
(2) The director of the department of health;
(3) The commissioner of education;
(4) The director of the department of social services;
(5) The director of the division of family services of the department of social services;
(6) The director of the division of youth services of the department of social services;
(7) The state courts administrator;
(8) The superintendent of the highway patrol;
(9) The chief information officer of the office of information technology of the office of administration;
(10) One judge who hears juvenile cases in a circuit comprised of one county of the first classification, appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court;
(11) One judge who hears juvenile cases in a circuit comprised of more than one county, appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court;
(12) One juvenile officer representing a circuit comprised of one county of the first classification, appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court;
(13) One juvenile officer representing a circuit comprised of more than one county, appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court.
3. The commission shall recommend and authorize information to be shared between executive agencies and juvenile and family divisions of the circuit courts pursuant to section 210.865. The commission shall provide vision, strategy, policy approval and oversight for development and implementation of agency, law enforcement and juvenile and family court information sharing. The commission may appoint subcommittees to address technical and policy issues associated with information sharing, communication, development and implementation.
4. The state courts administrator or a designee shall chair the commission.
5. The commission shall meet as determined by the chair but not less than semiannually. A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
6. No member of the commission shall receive compensation for the performance of duties associated with membership on the commission.
7. Official minutes of all commission meetings shall be prepared by the chair, distributed to the members and filed
by the state courts administrator.
Missouri House of Representatives