Bill Text: TX SB171 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the timely reporting of criminal case dispositions to the Department of Public Safety and to the allocation of certain grant money.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB171 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB171-Introduced.html

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88R3323 MCF-D
By: Blanco S.B. No. 171

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the timely reporting of criminal case dispositions to
the Department of Public Safety and to the allocation of certain
grant money.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 66.252, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e-1) to
read as follows:
(d) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (e) and
(e-1) or as otherwise required by applicable state law or rule,
information or data required by this chapter to be reported to the
Department of Public Safety or the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice shall be reported promptly but not later than the 30th day
after the date on which the information or data is received by the
agency responsible for reporting it.
(e-1) A clerk of court shall report to the Department of
Public Safety the dispositions of criminal cases in the court not
later than the fifth business day after the date of each
disposition. Each month, the department shall aggregate on a
county-wide basis information relating to the timeliness of the
dispositions reported for that month by the clerks of court in each
county under this subsection and shall determine the corresponding
percentage of case dispositions that were timely reported for that
county for that period.
SECTION 2. Article 66.402, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
Art. 66.402. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR ALLOCATION OF
CERTAIN GRANT MONEY. (a) Before allocating money to a county from
any federal or state grant program for the enhancement of criminal
justice programs, an agency of the state must certify that, using
all or part of the allocated money, the county has taken or will
take all action necessary to provide the Department of Public
Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice any criminal
history records maintained by the county in the manner specified
for purposes of those departments.
(b) Before allocating grant money to a county under Chapter
772, Government Code, the criminal justice division of the
governor's office must certify that the county consistently reports
to the Department of Public Safety not less than 90 percent of the
dispositions of criminal cases in the county not later than the
fifth business day after the date of the disposition, as determined
from reports submitted to the department by clerks of the court in
that county under Article 66.252(e-1). On request of the division,
the department shall provide to the division the applicable
information aggregated for a county under that subsection.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.