By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1529

(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2011; March 22, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; April 27, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 27, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the date by which law enforcement agencies must report arrests to the Department of Public Safety.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Article 60.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

(d) Except as otherwise required by applicable state laws or regulations, information or data required by this chapter to be reported to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or the Department of Public Safety shall be reported promptly but not later than the 30th day after the date on which the information or data is received by the agency responsible for reporting it except in the case of an arrest. An offender's arrest shall be reported to the Department of Public Safety not later than the second [seventh] day after the date of the arrest.

SECTION 2. Subsection (d), Article 60.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act, applies only to an arrest made on or after September 1, 2011.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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