| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to incident-based reporting of information and statistics |
|
|
concerning offenses committed in this state and the establishment |
|
|
of the Texas crime information system by the Department of Public |
|
|
Safety. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 411.054, Government Code, is amended to |
|
|
read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 411.054. INCIDENT-BASED CRIME STATISTICS REPORTING BY |
|
|
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES [GOAL]. (a) The department shall |
|
|
require [establish a goal that, not later than September 1, 2019,] |
|
|
all local law enforcement agencies to: |
|
|
(1) implement [will have implemented] an |
|
|
incident-based reporting system that meets the reporting |
|
|
requirements of the National Incident-Based Reporting System of the |
|
|
Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of |
|
|
Investigation; and |
|
|
(2) [will] use the system described by Subdivision (1) |
|
|
to submit to the department information and statistics concerning |
|
|
criminal offenses committed in the jurisdiction of the local law |
|
|
enforcement agency. |
|
|
(b) The department by rule shall prescribe the form and |
|
|
manner for submitting information and statistics under this section |
|
|
[Not later than January 1, 2017, the department shall submit a |
|
|
report to the legislature that identifies the number of local law |
|
|
enforcement agencies that have implemented the system described by |
|
|
Subsection (a)]. |
|
|
(c) Except as otherwise provided by this section and Section |
|
|
411.0541, information and statistics submitted to the department |
|
|
under this section are confidential and not subject to disclosure |
|
|
under Chapter 552. |
|
|
(d) The department shall submit the information and |
|
|
statistics received by the department under this section to the |
|
|
Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of |
|
|
Investigation, as required by that program. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Section 411.0541 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 411.0541. TEXAS CRIME INFORMATION SYSTEM. (a) In this |
|
|
section: |
|
|
(1) "Criminal justice agency" means: |
|
|
(A) a state agency that is engaged in the |
|
|
administration of criminal justice under a statute or executive |
|
|
order and allocates a substantial part of the agency's annual |
|
|
budget to the administration of criminal justice; or |
|
|
(B) a municipal or county agency, or school |
|
|
district law enforcement agency, that is engaged in the |
|
|
administration of criminal justice under a statute or executive |
|
|
order. |
|
|
(2) "System" means the computer-based Texas crime |
|
|
information system established under Subsection (b). |
|
|
(b) The department shall establish and maintain a |
|
|
computer-based Texas crime information system that includes all of |
|
|
the information and statistics submitted to the department under |
|
|
Section 411.054. |
|
|
(c) The department shall restrict access to the system to |
|
|
authorized personnel of criminal justice agencies, as determined by |
|
|
the department. |
|
|
(d) The department shall use the information included in the |
|
|
system to periodically publish reports regarding the nature and |
|
|
extent of criminal activities in this state. The department shall |
|
|
submit each report published under this subsection to the governor |
|
|
and each member of the legislature and shall publish each report on |
|
|
the department's Internet website. |
|
|
SECTION 3. The Department of Public Safety of the State of |
|
|
Texas shall adopt rules as necessary to implement Section 411.0541, |
|
|
Government Code, as added by this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |