1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 661
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 2001; February 13, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 6, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 6, 2001,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 661 By: Ogden
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to certain entities and individuals permitted to exchange
1-11 information regarding special needs offenders.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Subsection (c), Section 614.017,
1-14 Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (1) "Agency" includes any of the following entities
1-16 and individuals, a person with an agency relationship with one of
1-17 the following entities or individuals, and a person who contracts
1-18 with one or more of the following entities or individuals:
1-19 (A) the institutional division of the Texas
1-20 Department of Criminal Justice;
1-21 (B) the pardons and paroles division of the
1-22 Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
1-23 (C) the community justice assistance division of
1-24 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
1-25 (D) the state jail division of the Texas
1-26 Department of Criminal Justice;
1-27 (E) the Texas Department of Mental Health and
1-28 Mental Retardation;
1-29 (F) the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;
1-30 (G) the Texas Youth Commission;
1-31 (H) the Texas Rehabilitation Commission;
1-32 (I) the Texas Education Agency;
1-33 (J) the Criminal Justice Policy Council;
1-34 (K) the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
1-35 Abuse;
1-36 (L) the Commission on Jail Standards;
1-37 (M) the Texas Department of Human Services;
1-38 (N) the Texas Department on Aging;
1-39 (O) the Texas School for the Blind and Visually
1-40 Impaired;
1-41 (P) the Texas Department of Health;
1-42 (Q) the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard
1-43 of Hearing;
1-44 (R) community supervision and corrections
1-45 departments;
1-46 (S) personal bond pretrial release offices
1-47 established under Article 17.42, Code of Criminal Procedure; [and]
1-48 (T) local jails regulated by the Commission on
1-49 Jail Standards;
1-50 (U) a municipal or county health department;
1-51 (V) a hospital district;
1-52 (W) a judge of this state with jurisdiction over
1-53 criminal cases;
1-54 (X) an attorney who is appointed or retained to
1-55 represent a special needs offender; and
1-56 (Y) an attorney representing the state.
1-57 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-58 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-59 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-60 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-61 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
1-62 * * * * *