Bill Text: TX HB3106 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that law enforcement agencies enter into a certain database information related to investigations of sexual assault or other sex offenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 25-12)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3106 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3106-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that law enforcement agencies enter into a certain database information related to investigations of sexual assault or other sex offenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 25-12)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3106 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3106-Comm_Sub.html
86R19699 JCG-F | |||
By: Goldman, Krause, Tinderholt, et al. | H.B. No. 3106 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3106: | |||
By: Nevárez | C.S.H.B. No. 3106 |
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relating to a requirement that law enforcement agencies enter into | ||
the Texas Data Exchange information related to investigations of | ||
sexual assault or other sex offenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Molly Jane's Law. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 420, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 420.035 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 420.035. DUTY TO ENTER INVESTIGATION INFORMATION INTO | ||
INTELLIGENCE DATABASE. (a) In this section, "database" means the | ||
Texas Data Exchange or a successor comprehensive intelligence | ||
database. | ||
(b) A law enforcement agency that identifies a person as a | ||
suspect in the investigation of a sexual assault or other sex | ||
offense, regardless of how the person is identified, shall enter | ||
into the database information regarding the agency's investigation | ||
of that person. The information entered must include information: | ||
(1) specifying: | ||
(A) the suspect's name and date of birth; | ||
(B) the sex offense being investigated; and | ||
(C) the law enforcement agency investigating the | ||
offense; and | ||
(2) describing the manner in which the offense was | ||
committed, including the manner in which the suspect physically | ||
injured each victim, if applicable. | ||
(c) A law enforcement agency described by Subsection (b) | ||
shall remove the information from the database on the earliest of | ||
the following dates: | ||
(1) the date the agency no longer considers the person | ||
a suspect in the relevant investigation; | ||
(2) the date the person is charged with the offense | ||
being investigated or a similar offense; or | ||
(3) the fifth anniversary of the date the information | ||
was entered into the database. | ||
(d) The department may, as necessary, remove from the | ||
database any information entered under this section. | ||
(e) Information entered into the database under this | ||
section is excepted from required disclosure under Chapter 552 in | ||
the manner provided by Section 552.108. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 420.035, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a pending investigation of a sexual | ||
assault or other sex offense, regardless of whether the | ||
investigation was commenced before, on, or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |