Bill Text: TX HB1191 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1191 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to an annual report concerning the number of inmates who have been in the conservatorship of a state agency responsible for providing child protective services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1191 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1191-Introduced.html

	86R8038 JRR-D

	By: Johnson of Harris	H.B. No. 1191



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to an annual report concerning the number of inmates who
	have been in the conservatorship of a state agency responsible for
	providing child protective services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 501.023(b), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b) Not later than December 31 of each year, the department
	shall submit a report to the governor, the lieutenant governor,
	[~~the speaker of the house of representatives,~~] and each member of
	the legislature and shall make the report available to the public on
	the department's Internet website [~~standing committee having~~
	~~primary jurisdiction over the department~~]. The report must
	summarize statistical information concerning the total number of
	inmates who have at any time been in the conservatorship of a state
	agency responsible for providing child protective services,
	including, disaggregated by age, the number of inmates who have not
	previously served a term of imprisonment.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.