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House Bill 3691 |
House Author: Gallego |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Carona |
House Bill 3691 amends the Government Code to authorize community supervision and corrections department programs and services in a judicial district without an established community supervision and corrections department to be provided through a contract with a community supervision and corrections department established for another judicial district. The bill requires the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to adopt rules allowing departments to contract with one another for that purpose and for services or facilities. The bill adds the director of a community supervision and corrections department or the director's designee to the members of which a community justice council should consist.
House Bill 3691 requires a community supervision and corrections department's community justice plan to include, among other items, a description of the programs and services the department provides or intends to provide and an outline of its projected and programmatic budgetary needs. The bill requires the community justice assistance division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to prepare a report containing a detailed summary of the programs and services provided by departments, sets out the required contents of the report, and requires the division to submit the report to the board and TDCJ's executive director. The bill requires the board to require TDCJ to submit each legislative appropriations request, accompanied by the division's most recent report, to the board for approval before submission to the Legislative Budget Board (LBB), requires TDCJ to include the information in that report with each legislative appropriations request submitted to LBB, and requires the division to submit the report to LBB not later than the date TDCJ is required to submit its legislative appropriations request to LBB.
In addition to submitting a community justice plan, a community supervision and corrections department or a regional partnership of departments is required to submit a commitment reduction plan to the community justice division by a specified date. The bill sets out the required contents of a commitment reduction plan and other related criteria and the circumstances under which the division may award incentive payments to a department or regional partnership of departments, the purposes for which the departments may use such funds, and other requirements relating to the funds.