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

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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-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Johnson of Harris, et al. H.B. No. 1191
(Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2019;
May 6, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.)
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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.
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