Bill Text: TX HB2672 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study conducted by the Department of Public Safety on the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2672 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2672-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 2672 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2672: | |||
| By: Burns | C.S.H.B. No. 2672 | ||
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| relating to a study conducted by the Department of Public Safety on | ||
| the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault offenses. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 420, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 420.016 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 420.016. STUDY AND REPORT REGARDING INVESTIGATION AND | ||
| PROSECUTION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OFFENSES. (a) The department shall | ||
| conduct a study regarding the investigation and prosecution of | ||
| sexual assault offenses to determine the rate of case attrition for | ||
| those offenses and the reasons for the case attrition. | ||
| (b) In conducting the study, the department shall compile | ||
| information relating to the commission of offenses under Sections | ||
| 22.011 and 22.021, Penal Code, including information regarding the | ||
| number of cases: | ||
| (1) in which the law enforcement agency investigating | ||
| the offense forwarded the case to the appropriate local county or | ||
| district attorney, including cases that are prosecuted as a | ||
| different criminal offense; | ||
| (2) closed or classified as inactive by the law | ||
| enforcement agency without forwarding the case to the appropriate | ||
| local county or district attorney, and the reasons for that closure | ||
| or classification; | ||
| (3) in which the local county or district attorney did | ||
| not prosecute the offense, and the reasons for not prosecuting the | ||
| offense, including whether the offense was referred to a grand | ||
| jury; and | ||
| (4) dismissed after an indictment had been filed. | ||
| (c) The department shall identify the governmental entities | ||
| that possess information required by Subsection (b) and require | ||
| each of those entities to report the information to the department | ||
| in the manner prescribed by the department. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1, 2020, the department shall | ||
| submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each member of | ||
| the legislature and publish on the department's Internet website a | ||
| report on the results of the department's study under this section | ||
| and recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
