88R3323 MCF-D
 
  By: Blanco S.B. No. 171
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the timely reporting of criminal case dispositions to
  the Department of Public Safety and to the allocation of certain
  grant money.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 66.252, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e-1) to
  read as follows:
         (d)  Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (e) and
  (e-1) or as otherwise required by applicable state law or rule,
  information or data required by this chapter to be reported to the
  Department of Public Safety or the Texas Department of Criminal
  Justice 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.
         (e-1)  A clerk of court shall report to the Department of
  Public Safety the dispositions of criminal cases in the court not
  later than the fifth business day after the date of each
  disposition. Each month, the department shall aggregate on a
  county-wide basis information relating to the timeliness of the
  dispositions reported for that month by the clerks of court in each
  county under this subsection and shall determine the corresponding
  percentage of case dispositions that were timely reported for that
  county for that period.
         SECTION 2.  Article 66.402, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 66.402.  CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR ALLOCATION OF
  CERTAIN GRANT MONEY. (a) Before allocating money to a county from
  any federal or state grant program for the enhancement of criminal
  justice programs, an agency of the state must certify that, using
  all or part of the allocated money, the county has taken or will
  take all action necessary to provide the Department of Public
  Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice any criminal
  history records maintained by the county in the manner specified
  for purposes of those departments.
         (b)  Before allocating grant money to a county under Chapter
  772, Government Code, the criminal justice division of the
  governor's office must certify that the county consistently reports
  to the Department of Public Safety not less than 90 percent of the
  dispositions of criminal cases in the county not later than the
  fifth business day after the date of the disposition, as determined
  from reports submitted to the department by clerks of the court in
  that county under Article 66.252(e-1). On request of the division,
  the department shall provide to the division the applicable
  information aggregated for a county under that subsection.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.