(a) The department shall assign codes for the reporting of data to the juvenile justice information system. The department shall designate and distribute a list of uniform offense codes to be used in reporting data to the juvenile justice information system. The department has the sole responsibility for designating the state identification number for each juvenile whose name appears in the juvenile justice information system. The department will, upon receipt of fingerprint submissions of juvenile offender data, assign unique state identification numbers to each juvenile offender reported to the juvenile justice information system.
(b) To the extent possible, and subject to the list of types of information collected in subsection (a) of this section, local law enforcement and juvenile justice agencies shall report, and the department shall include in the juvenile justice information system the following information for each juvenile offender referred under the Texas Family Code, Title 3, Chapter 58, §§58.101 - 58.113 for delinquent conduct:
  (1) the juvenile offender's name, including other names by which the juvenile offender is known or has used;
  (2) the juvenile offender's date and place of birth, including alias dates of birth used by the offender;
  (3) the juvenile offender's physical description, including sex, weight, height, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair color, scars, marks, and tattoos;
  (4) the juvenile offender's state identification number, and other numbers as identified on the uniform incident fingerprint card as designed by the department for reporting to the juvenile justice information system, including alias identifying numbers;
  (5) the juvenile offender's fingerprints, which shall be stored in the statewide automated fingerprint identification system;
  (6) the juvenile offender's last known residential address, from which the department shall determine the census tract number designation, if possible;
  (7) the name and identifying number as assigned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the agency that took into custody or detained the juvenile offender;
  (8) the date of detention or custody;
  (9) the conduct for which the juvenile offender was taken into custody, detained, or referred, including level and degree of the alleged offense;
  (10) the name and identifying number as assigned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the juvenile intake agency or juvenile probation office;
  (11) each disposition by the juvenile intake agency or juvenile probation office, as identified by codes assigned by the department;
  (12) the date of disposition by the juvenile intake agency or juvenile probation office;
  (13) the name and identifying number as assigned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the prosecutor's office;
  (14) each disposition by the prosecutor;
  (15) the date of disposition by the prosecutor;
  (16) the name and identifying number as assigned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the court;
  (17) each disposition by the court, as identified by codes assigned by the department, including information concerning custody of a juvenile offender by a juvenile justice agency or probation;
  (18) the date of disposition by the court;
  (19) any commitment or release under supervision by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department;
  (20) the date of any commitment or release under supervision by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department; and
  (21) a description of each appellate proceeding, as identified by codes assigned by the department.
(c) Local agencies are not required to report, nor is the department required to maintain dispositions that represent administrative status notices of a juvenile justice agency.

Source Note: The provisions of this §27.55 adopted to be effective March 7, 1996, 21 TexReg 1588; amended to be effective May 6, 2014, 39 TexReg 3599