74R10495 DD-D
By Cook H.B. No. 269
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the redundant reporting of information within the
1-3 criminal justice information system.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 60.06(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each criminal justice agency shall:
1-8 (1) compile and maintain records needed for reporting
1-9 data required by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the
1-10 Department of Public Safety;
1-11 (2) transmit to the Texas Department of Criminal
1-12 Justice and the Department of Public Safety, when and in the manner
1-13 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Department of
1-14 Public Safety direct, all data required by the Texas Department of
1-15 Criminal Justice and the Department of Public Safety<, other than
1-16 reports concerning the identity of a juvenile offender or the
1-17 offender's parents>;
1-18 (3) give the Department of Public Safety and the Texas
1-19 Department of Criminal Justice or their accredited agents access to
1-20 the agency for the purpose of inspection to determine the
1-21 completeness and accuracy of data reported; <and>
1-22 (4) cooperate with the Department of Public Safety and
1-23 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice so that the Department of
1-24 Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice may
2-1 properly and efficiently perform their duties under this chapter;
2-2 and
2-3 (5) cooperate with the Department of Public Safety and
2-4 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to identify and eliminate
2-5 redundant reporting of information to the criminal justice
2-6 information system.
2-7 SECTION 2. Article 60.08(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
2-8 amended to read as follows:
2-9 (a) The Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department
2-10 of Criminal Justice shall, by rule, develop reporting procedures
2-11 that:
2-12 (1) ensure that the offender processing data is
2-13 reported from the time an offender is arrested until the time an
2-14 offender is released; and
2-15 (2) provide measures and policies designed to identify
2-16 and eliminate redundant reporting of information to the criminal
2-17 justice information system.
2-18 SECTION 3. Chapter 60, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
2-19 amended by adding Article 60.19 to read as follows:
2-20 Art. 60.19. REPORT TO LEGISLATURE. (a) The Texas
2-21 Department of Criminal Justice shall:
2-22 (1) analyze the department's existing reporting
2-23 requirements for criminal justice agencies for the corrections
2-24 tracking system; and
2-25 (2) not later than December 1, 1996, report to the
2-26 legislature the results of the analysis and recommendations for
2-27 improving the reporting requirements.
3-1 (b) The report required under Subsection (a)(2) must
3-2 contain:
3-3 (1) an evaluation of the current corrections tracking
3-4 system;
3-5 (2) an analysis of automated and manual reporting
3-6 methods in the corrections tracking system;
3-7 (3) an outline of duplications in reporting in the
3-8 corrections tracking system, including other automated or manual
3-9 reporting under the department's control;
3-10 (4) an analysis of the feasibility of reducing or
3-11 eliminating manual reporting by using existing data in the
3-12 corrections tracking system;
3-13 (5) a list of the divisions in the department that
3-14 should be accountable for ensuring that the recommendations are
3-15 implemented; and
3-16 (6) a time line for implementing the automated
3-17 corrections tracking system and reducing or eliminating manual
3-18 reporting.
3-19 (c) This article expires September 1, 1997.
3-20 SECTION 4. The Department of Public Safety and the Texas
3-21 Department of Criminal Justice shall adopt the rules required by
3-22 Article 60.08(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this
3-23 Act, not later than January 1, 1996.
3-24 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-3 passage, and it is so enacted.