Bill Text: TX HB4879 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to incident-based reporting of information and statistics concerning offenses committed in this state and the establishment of the Texas crime information system by the Department of Public Safety.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4879 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4879-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 4879

AN ACT
relating to incident-based reporting of information and statistics
concerning offenses committed in this state and the establishment
of the Texas crime information system by the Department of Public
Safety.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 411.054, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 411.054. INCIDENT-BASED CRIME STATISTICS REPORTING BY
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES [GOAL]. (a) The department shall
require [establish a goal that, not later than September 1, 2019,]
all local law enforcement agencies to:
(1) implement [will have implemented] an
incident-based reporting system that meets the reporting
requirements of the National Incident-Based Reporting System of the
Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation; and
(2) [will] use the system described by Subdivision (1)
to submit to the department information and statistics concerning
criminal offenses committed in the jurisdiction of the local law
enforcement agency.
(b) The department by rule shall prescribe the form and
manner for submitting information and statistics under this section
[Not later than January 1, 2017, the department shall submit a
report to the legislature that identifies the number of local law
enforcement agencies that have implemented the system described by
Subsection (a)].
(c) Except as otherwise provided by this section and Section
411.0541, information and statistics submitted to the department
under this section are confidential and not subject to disclosure
under Chapter 552.
(d) The department shall submit the information and
statistics received by the department under this section to the
Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, as required by that program.
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 411.0541 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.0541. TEXAS CRIME INFORMATION SYSTEM. (a) In this
section:
(1) "Criminal justice agency" means:
(A) a state agency that is engaged in the
administration of criminal justice under a statute or executive
order and allocates a substantial part of the agency's annual
budget to the administration of criminal justice; or
(B) a municipal or county agency, or school
district law enforcement agency, that is engaged in the
administration of criminal justice under a statute or executive
order.
(2) "System" means the computer-based Texas crime
information system established under Subsection (b).
(b) The department shall establish and maintain a
computer-based Texas crime information system that includes all of
the information and statistics submitted to the department under
Section 411.054.
(c) The department shall restrict access to the system to
authorized personnel of criminal justice agencies, as determined by
the department.
(d) The department shall use the information included in the
system to periodically publish reports regarding the nature and
extent of criminal activities in this state. The department shall
submit each report published under this subsection to the governor
and each member of the legislature and shall publish each report on
the department's Internet website.
SECTION 3. The Department of Public Safety of the State of
Texas shall adopt rules as necessary to implement Section 411.0541,
Government Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4879 was passed by the House on May 2,
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 6, 3 present, not
voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4879 was passed by the Senate on May
21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor