BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

Senate Research Center                                                                                                        S.B. 909

79R1108 KCR-D                                                                                                          By: Whitmire

                                                                                                                                   Criminal Justice

                                                                                                                                              4/8/2005

                                                                                                                                              As Filed

 

 

AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

To ensure that the mandated Community Supervision Tracking System, the Correctional Tracking System, and the Criminal Justice Tracking System are fully implemented and accurate, S.B. 909 requires that the Department of Public Safety-assigned State Identification Number (SID) for each person and the Tracking Index Number (TRN) for each case be included in the court judgment that serves as the basis for commitment forms when an offender is sentenced to confinement, probation, or any other disposition of the case or cases. 

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1.  Amends Article 42.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, by adding Section 9, to require a judgment to reflect certain identification numbers of the defendant and of the arrest.

 

SECTION 2.  Amends Article 60.052(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, to require information in the corrections tracking system relating to a sentence to be served under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to include the tracking incident number (TRN) assigned under Article 60.07(b)(1) to the individual incident of arrest that is the basis of the offender's conviction.  Makes a nonsubstantive change. 

 

SECTION 3.  Amends Section 509.004(b), Government Code, to require the community justice assistance division to develop an automated tracking system that is capable of tracking the defendant and the sentencing event at which the defendant was placed on community supervision by name or state identification number assigned by the Department of Public Safety to the defendant under Chapter 60 (Criminal History Record System), Code of Criminal Procedure, arrest charge code, and the tracking incident number assigned under Article 60.07(b)(1), Code of Criminal Procedure, rather than by the incident number. 

 

SECTION 4.  Makes application of Article 42.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act, prospective to a judgment of court entered on or after September 1, 2005.

 

SECTION 5.  Makes application of Article 60.052, Code of Criminal Procedure, and Section 509.004, Government Code, as amended by this Act, prospective to a criminal history record created for a defendant arrested for an offense committed on or after September 1, 2005.

 

SECTION 6.  Effective date: September 1, 2005.