By:  Hopson (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)                           H.B. No. 1236
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 2003; 
April 9, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Criminal Justice; April 16, 2003, rereferred to Committee on 
Administration; April 23, 2003, reported favorably by the 
following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to information required to be placed in a pen packet 
accompanying a defendant on transfer from county jail to the Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 8(a), Article 42.09, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A county that transfers a defendant to the Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice under this article shall deliver to 
an officer designated by the department:
		(1)  a copy of the judgment entered pursuant to Article 
42.01 of this code, completed on a standardized felony judgment 
form described by Section 4 of that article;
		(2)  a copy of any order revoking community supervision 
and imposing sentence pursuant to Section 23, Article 42.12, of 
this code, including:
			(A)  any amounts owed for restitution, fines, and 
court costs, completed on a standardized felony judgment form 
described by Section 4, Article 42.01, of this code; and
			(B)  a copy of the client supervision plan 
prepared for the defendant by the community supervision and 
corrections department supervising the defendant, if such a plan 
was prepared;
		(3)  a written report that states the nature and the 
seriousness of each offense and that states the citation to the 
provision or provisions of the Penal Code or other law under which 
the defendant was convicted;
		(4)  a copy of the victim impact statement, if one has 
been prepared in the case under Article 56.03 of this code;
		(5)  a statement as to whether there was a change in 
venue in the case and, if so, the names of the county prosecuting 
the offense and the county in which the case was tried;
		(6)  a copy of the record of arrest for each offense;                         
		(7)  if requested, information regarding the criminal 
history of the defendant, including the defendant's state 
identification number if the number has been issued;
		(8)  a copy of the indictment or information for each 
offense;              
		(9)  a checklist sent by the department to the county 
and completed by the county in a manner indicating that the 
documents required by this subsection and Subsection (c) of this 
section accompany the defendant; [and]
		(10)  if prepared, a copy of a presentence or 
postsentence investigation report prepared under Section 9, 
Article 42.12 of this code;
		(11)  a copy of any detainer, issued by an agency of the 
federal government, that is in the possession of the county and that 
has been placed on the defendant; and
		(12)  a written description of a hold or warrant, 
issued by any other jurisdiction, that the county is aware of and 
that has been placed on or issued for the defendant.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies to a defendant who is transferred from a county to the Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice on or after that date.



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