Bill Text: TX HB2672 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study conducted by the Department of Public Safety on the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2672 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2672-Comm_Sub.html
86R20652 MEW-D | |||
By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 2672 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2672: | |||
By: Burns | C.S.H.B. No. 2672 |
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relating to a study conducted by the Department of Public Safety on | ||
the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault offenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 420, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 420.016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 420.016. STUDY AND REPORT REGARDING INVESTIGATION AND | ||
PROSECUTION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OFFENSES. (a) The department shall | ||
conduct a study regarding the investigation and prosecution of | ||
sexual assault offenses to determine the rate of case attrition for | ||
those offenses and the reasons for the case attrition. | ||
(b) In conducting the study, the department shall compile | ||
information relating to the commission of offenses under Sections | ||
22.011 and 22.021, Penal Code, including information regarding the | ||
number of cases: | ||
(1) in which the law enforcement agency investigating | ||
the offense forwarded the case to the appropriate local county or | ||
district attorney, including cases that are prosecuted as a | ||
different criminal offense; | ||
(2) closed or classified as inactive by the law | ||
enforcement agency without forwarding the case to the appropriate | ||
local county or district attorney, and the reasons for that closure | ||
or classification; | ||
(3) in which the local county or district attorney did | ||
not prosecute the offense, and the reasons for not prosecuting the | ||
offense, including whether the offense was referred to a grand | ||
jury; and | ||
(4) dismissed after an indictment had been filed. | ||
(c) The department shall identify the governmental entities | ||
that possess information required by Subsection (b) and require | ||
each of those entities to report the information to the department | ||
in the manner prescribed by the department. | ||
(d) Not later than December 1, 2020, the department shall | ||
submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each member of | ||
the legislature and publish on the department's Internet website a | ||
report on the results of the department's study under this section | ||
and recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
(e) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |