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Amend CSHB 2086 (Senate committee printing) by adding an
appropriately numbered SECTION to the article to read as follows
and by renumbering existing SECTIONS of the article accordingly:
SECTION 9.__. (a) The Legislative Budget Board shall
prepare an annual criminal justice policy impact statement for this
Act.
(b) The impact statement must include information
concerning:
(1) the number of arrests and resulting criminal
dispositions under this Act;
(2) the fiscal impact of arrests, trials, convictions,
and imprisoning or imposing other sanctions on persons in
accordance with this Act;
(3) the race and ethnicity of persons arrested,
prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated under this Act;
(4) the impact of this Act on existing correctional
facilities, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code;
(5) the likelihood that this Act may create a need for
additional prison capacity;
(6) civil action damages assessed and collected, and
assets seized and forfeited under this Act; and
(7) any other matter the Legislative Budget Board
determines relevant.
(c) The Legislative Budget Board shall complete the impact
statement not later than December 1 each year, beginning December
1, 2010, and make it available to the public on its website.