Bill Text: TX HB4879 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4879-Comm_Sub.html
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]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4879-Comm_Sub.html
By: Holland (Senate Sponsor - Flores) | H.B. No. 4879 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023; | ||
May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
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WhitmireX | ||
FloresX | ||
BettencourtX | ||
HinojosaX | ||
HuffmanX | ||
KingX | ||
MilesX | ||
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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 [ |
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require [ |
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all local law enforcement agencies to: | ||
(1) implement [ |
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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) [ |
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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 | ||
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(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. | ||
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