1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to procedures and policies concerning the duration,
1-3 eligibility for renewal, and assumption of costs of criminal
1-4 justice grant projects.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 772.006(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) The governor shall establish a criminal justice division
1-9 in the governor's office to:
1-10 (1) advise and assist the governor in developing
1-11 policies, plans, programs, and proposed legislation for improving
1-12 the coordination, administration, and effectiveness of the criminal
1-13 justice system;
1-14 (2) administer the criminal justice planning fund;
1-15 (3) prepare a state comprehensive criminal justice
1-16 plan, to update the plan annually based on an analysis of the
1-17 state's criminal justice problems and needs, and to encourage
1-18 identical or substantially similar local and regional comprehensive
1-19 criminal justice planning efforts;
1-20 (4) establish goals, priorities, and standards for
1-21 programs and projects to improve the administration of justice and
1-22 the efficiency of law enforcement, the judicial system,
1-23 prosecution, criminal defense, and adult and juvenile corrections
1-24 and rehabilitation;
2-1 (5) award grants to state agencies, units of local
2-2 government, school districts, and private, nonprofit corporations
2-3 from the criminal justice planning fund for programs and projects
2-4 on consideration of the goals, priorities, and standards
2-5 recommended by the Criminal Justice Policy Council;
2-6 (6) apply for, obtain, and allocate for the purposes
2-7 of this section any federal or other funds which may be made
2-8 available for programs and projects that address the goals,
2-9 priorities, and standards established in local and regional
2-10 comprehensive criminal justice planning efforts or assist those
2-11 efforts;
2-12 (7) administer the funds provided by this section in
2-13 such a manner as to ensure that grants received under this section
2-14 do not supplant state or local funds;
2-15 (8) [establish procedures and policies that require
2-16 that the costs of programs and projects funded to local general
2-17 purpose units of government be assumed over a period of five years
2-18 out of local revenues;]
2-19 [(9)] monitor and evaluate programs and projects
2-20 funded under this section, cooperate with and render technical
2-21 assistance to state agencies and local governments seeking to
2-22 reduce crime or enhance the performance and operation of the
2-23 criminal justice system, and collect from any state or local
2-24 government entity information, data, statistics, or other material
2-25 necessary to carry out the purposes of this section;
2-26 (9) [(10)] submit a biennial report to the legislature
2-27 reporting the division's activities during the preceding biennium
3-1 including the comprehensive state criminal justice plans and other
3-2 studies, evaluations, crime data analyses, reports, or proposed
3-3 legislation that the governor determines appropriate or the
3-4 legislature requests; and
3-5 (10) [(11)] perform other duties as necessary to carry
3-6 out the duties listed in this subsection [Subdivisions (a)(1)
3-7 through (a)(10)] and adopt rules and procedures as necessary.
3-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
3-9 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
3-10 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
3-11 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
3-12 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 726 was passed by the House on
May 10, 2001, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 726 was passed by the Senate on
May 23, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0, 1 present,
not voting.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________________
Date
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Governor