Bill Text: TX HB4879 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4879 Detail]

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  H.B. No. 4879
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4879 was passed by the House on May 2,
  2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 6, 3 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4879 was passed by the Senate on May
  21, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
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