Bill Text: TX SB181 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to adopt a gender-responsive risk and needs assessment instrument.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB181 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB181-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 181 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Criminal | ||
| Justice to adopt a gender-responsive risk and needs assessment | ||
| instrument. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 501.0921(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The department shall adopt a standardized instrument to | ||
| assess, based on criminogenic factors, the risks and needs of each | ||
| offender within the adult criminal justice system. The department | ||
| may adopt a gender-responsive version of the instrument to assess | ||
| offenders of a specific gender that takes into account factors that | ||
| particularly affect that gender. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
