Bill Text: TX SB182 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 182 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the required report of criminal offenses committed against individuals receiving certain state agency services; creating a criminal offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB182 Detail]

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	By: Miles, West	S.B. No. 182
	(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2022; February 15, 2023,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
	March 27, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 27, 2023,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 182	By: Miles


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the required report of criminal offenses committed
	against individuals receiving certain state agency services;
	creating a criminal offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code,
	is amended by adding Section 40.082 to read as follows:
	Sec. 40.082. REPORT OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT; PENALTY. (a) Each
	employee of the department or of a department contractor who
	becomes aware of conduct constituting a criminal offense engaged in
	by another employee of the department or by a department contractor
	against a person receiving services from the department or a
	department contractor shall report the conduct to the Department of
	Public Safety.
	(b) A person commits an offense if the person is required to
	make a report under Subsection (a) and knowingly fails to make the
	report.
	(c) An offense under Subsection (b) is a Class A
	misdemeanor, except that the offense is a state jail felony if it is
	shown on the trial of the offense that the actor intended to hinder
	an investigation of or conceal the criminal conduct described by
	Subsection (a).
	SECTION 2. Chapter 203, Human Resources Code, is amended by
	adding Section 203.020 to read as follows:
	Sec. 203.020. REPORT OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT; PENALTY. (a)
	Each employee of the department or of a department contractor who
	becomes aware of conduct constituting a criminal offense engaged in
	by another employee of the department or by a department contractor
	against a person receiving services from the department or a
	department contractor shall report the conduct to the Department of
	Public Safety.
	(b) A person commits an offense if the person is required to
	make a report under Subsection (a) and knowingly fails to make the
	report.
	(c) An offense under Subsection (b) is a Class A
	misdemeanor, except that the offense is a state jail felony if it is
	shown on the trial of the offense that the actor intended to hinder
	an investigation of or conceal the criminal conduct described by
	Subsection (a).
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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