Official Summary Text
Present law requires the administrative director of t
he courts to establish criteria, develop procedures, and implement a Tennessee court information system (TnCIS). The system must provide an integrated case management and accounting software system addressing the statutory responsibilities of the clerks
o
f the general sessions, chancery, circuit and juvenile courts. This bill removes juvenile courts from this provision.
Present law provides that the administrative office of the courts (AOC) is directed to define and develop a centralized system of case
management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed necessary for collection and reporting of all state and local court public case level data, pursuant to present law provi
s
ions of quality statewide data collection. This bill requires the AOC to maintain a criminal justice information services (CJIS) compliant centralized statewide juvenile case management system that will be integrated into the system developed pursuant to
present law. The juvenile case management system must be made available to all juvenile court clerks, and the clerks must adopt and convert to the new system on a schedule to be determined in consultation with the AOC.
DUTIES OF CLERK
Under present law
, it is the duty of the clerk of each of the courts to install and maintain the court information system as provided by the AOC that will collect and report electronically all data required under present law, or otherwise statutorily mandated, and the AOC
must provide for the necessary data transfers with other state agencies as defined by the AOC or as statutorily required. This bill requires each juvenile court and juvenile court clerk to use the statewide juvenile case management system designated by t
h
e AOC pursuant to this bill.
REPORTING PROCEDURE
Present law requires each juvenile court, through the juvenile court clerk or juvenile court staff, to, each month, in a format prescribed by the administrative office of the courts, report to the admin
istrative office of the courts certain information described in present law. This bill revises this provision to, instead, require such courts to use the statewide juvenile case management system prescribed by the administrative office of the courts.
ON
MARCH 24, 2025, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 992 FOR HOUSE BILL 1038, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 992, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #1 requires
all files and juvenile court records in a delinquency proceeding, including medical reports, ps
ychological evaluations, and any other document, relating to a person
to
be opened to public inspection and their content subject to disclosure to the public if
(i) t
he person has committed a homicide on the grounds of a school
, whether or not the
person
h
as
been adjudicated delinquent for
,
or convicted of
,
a homicide offense; and
(ii) t
he person is deceased.
However, any
information in a file or juvenile court record that directly or indirectly identifies another juvenile
must
be redacted.
Current Bill Text
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HOUSE BILL 1038
By Garrett
SENATE BILL 992
By Haile
SB0992
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8;
Title 16; Title 18 and Title 37, relative to juvenile
courts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 16-3-803(h), is amended by deleting
the language "circuit and juvenile courts" and substituting "and circuit courts".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 16-3-822, is amended by adding the
following language as a new subsection (b) and redesignating the subsequent subsection
accordingly:
(b) Pursuant to the requirements of § 37-1-187, the AOC must maintain a
criminal justice information services (CJIS) compliant centralized statewide juvenile case
management system that will be integrated into the system developed pursuant to
subsection (a). The juvenile case management system must be made available to all
juvenile court clerks, and the clerks must adopt and convert to the new system on a
schedule to be determined in consultation with the AOC.
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 18-1-105, is amended by adding the
following language as a new subdivision (d)(3) and renumbering the subsequent subdivisions
accordingly:
(3) Each juvenile court and juvenile court clerk shall use the statewide juvenile
case management system designated by the AOC pursuant to § 16-3-822(b).
SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 37-1-187, is amended by deleting
subsection (d) and substituting:
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(d) Each juvenile court, through the juvenile court clerk or juvenile court staff,
shall, each month, within the statewide juvenile case management system prescribed by
the administrative office of the courts, report to the administrative office of the courts the
following information:
SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.