By: Ogden  S.B. No. 777
         (In the Senate - Filed February 11, 2009; March 4, 2009,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  March 26, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 26, 2009,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 777 By:  Ellis
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to statistical information on the prosecution of certain
  offenses relating to the operating of a motor vehicle while
  intoxicated.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 411.049 to read as follows:
         Sec. 411.049.  REPORT RELATED TO CERTAIN INTOXICATION
  OFFENSES.  (a)  The department shall compile and maintain
  statistical information on the prosecution of offenses under
  Chapter 49, Penal Code, relating to the operating of a motor vehicle
  while intoxicated, including:
               (1)  the number of arrests;
               (2)  the number of arrests resulting in release with no
  charges;
               (3)  the number of charges resulting in a plea of not
  guilty and a trial;
               (4)  the number of charges resulting in a plea of guilty
  or nolo contendere and, of those pleas, the number entered pursuant
  to a plea agreement;
               (5)  the number of charges resulting in a conviction of
  the offense charged in the original information, indictment,
  complaint, or other charging instrument;
               (6)  the number of charges resulting in a conviction of
  an offense having a lesser penalty than the offense charged in the
  original information, indictment, complaint, or other charging
  instrument; and
               (7)  the number of charges resulting in a dismissal.
         (b)  The department shall submit a report of the statistical
  information covering the preceding calendar year to the legislature
  not later than February 15 of each year.
         (c)  Each law enforcement agency that enforces Chapter 49,
  Penal Code, and each appropriate prosecuting attorney's office and
  court in this state shall report in the manner and on a form
  prescribed by the department the information necessary for the
  department to compile the information required by Subsection (a).
         (d)  The department may adopt rules to implement this
  section.
         SECTION 2.  The Department of Public Safety of the State of
  Texas shall submit the first report required by Subsection (b),
  Section 411.049, Government Code, as added by this Act, not later
  than February 15, 2011.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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