By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 965

(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2015; March 10, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; April 8, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 2015, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the filing of a copy of certain records related to the release of an accused person on personal bond.

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

SECTION 1. Section 5(a), Article 17.42, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

(a) A personal bond pretrial release office established under this article shall:

(1) prepare a record containing information about any accused person identified by case number only who, after review by the office, is released by a court on personal bond;

(2) update the record on a monthly basis; and

(3) file a copy of the record with [in the office of] the district or county clerk, as applicable based on court jurisdiction over the categories of offenses addressed in the records, [of the county court] in any county served by the office.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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