BILL ANALYSIS

Senate Research Center	S.B. 663
98R5082 BCH-D	By: Huffman
	Criminal Justice
	4/11/2025
	As Filed

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

The operation and management of �community supervision and corrections departments (CSCD) are incredibly complex. Thus, it is challenging for a judge to manage a large docket and perform other judicial duties, while also taking on the administrative responsibility to approve a CSCD's budget and strategic plan.

S.B. 663 removes the requirement for a CSCD budget to be approved by the district judge or judges in that county.

As proposed, S.B. 663 amends current law relating to the approval of a community supervision and corrections department's budget and strategic plan.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 76.002(a), Government Code, as follows:

(a) Requires the district judge or district judges trying criminal cases in each judicial district and the statutory county court judges trying criminal cases in the county or counties served by the judicial district to perform certain actions, including reviewing, rather than approving, a community supervision and corrections department's (department) budget and strategic plan following approval of the budget and plan by the community justice assistant division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (division).

SECTION 2. Amends Section 76.0045(b), Government Code, to make conforming changes.

SECTION 3. Amends Section 509.004(a), Government Code, as follows:

(a) Requires the division to require each department to perform certain actions, including submitting the department's budget and a strategic plan and all supporting information requested by the division. Makes nonsubstantive changes.

SECTION 4. Amends the heading to Section 509.007, to read as follows:

Sec. 509.007. DEPARTMENT BUDGET AND STRATEGIC PLAN.

SECTION 5. Amends Section 509.007, Government Code, by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1), as follows:

(a) Requires the division to require as a condition to payment of state aid to a department or county under Section 509.011 (Payment of State Aid) that the department submit the department's budget for the state fiscal biennium and a strategic plan to the division and that the department's budget and plan be approved by the division.

Deletes existing text requiring the division to require as a condition to payment of state aid to a department or county under Section 509.011 that a strategic plan be submitted for the department. Deletes existing text requiring the department to submit the plan required by this subsection. Deletes existing text prohibiting a department from submitting a plan under this section unless the plan is first approved by the judges described by Section 76.002 (Establishment of Departments) who established the department.

Makes a nonsubstantive change to this subsection.

(a-1) Creates this subsection from existing text. Requires a department to submit the department's budget for the next state fiscal biennium and a revised strategic plan to the division each even-numbered year not later than March 1. Authorizes the department's budget or strategic plan to be amended at any time with the approval of the division. Makes nonsubstantive changes.

SECTION 6. Effective date: September 1, 2025.