By Naishtat, Greenberg, Giddings                      H.B. No. 2663
       74R7920 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to firearm statistics maintained by the Department of
    1-3  Public Safety.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 411.042, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (b)  The bureau of identification and records shall:
    1-9              (1)  procure and file for record photographs, pictures,
   1-10  descriptions, fingerprints, measurements, and other pertinent
   1-11  information of all persons arrested for or charged with a criminal
   1-12  offense or convicted of a criminal offense, regardless of whether
   1-13  the conviction is probated;
   1-14              (2)  collect information concerning the number and
   1-15  nature of offenses reported or known to have been committed in the
   1-16  state and the legal steps taken in connection with the offenses,
   1-17  and other information useful in the study of crime and the
   1-18  administration of justice, including a statistical breakdown of
   1-19  those offenses in which family violence was involved;
   1-20              (3)  make ballistic tests of bullets and firearms and
   1-21  chemical analyses of bloodstains, cloth, materials, and other
   1-22  substances for law enforcement officers of the state; <and>
   1-23              (4)  cooperate with identification and crime records
   1-24  bureaus in other states and the United States Department of
    2-1  Justice; and
    2-2              (5)  collect information concerning the number and
    2-3  nature of incidents to which a peace officer responds or for which
    2-4  a report is made to a law enforcement authority under Section
    2-5  161.041, Health and Safety Code, that involve the discharge of a
    2-6  firearm, regardless of whether a person is arrested or charges are
    2-7  filed as a result of the incident.
    2-8        (h)  Information collected and maintained by the bureau of
    2-9  identification and records relating to incidents involving the
   2-10  discharge of a firearm shall include for each incident:
   2-11              (1)  the number of persons who sustain a bullet wound;
   2-12              (2)  the number of bullet wounds sustained by each
   2-13  victim;
   2-14              (3)  the nature of the relationship between the
   2-15  perpetrator and the victim;
   2-16              (4)  the ages of the perpetrator and the victim;
   2-17              (5)  the type of firearm used; and
   2-18              (6)  the legal steps taken in connection with the
   2-19  incident.
   2-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.