Bill Text: TX HB536 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the entry into the Texas Crime Information Center of information concerning the release on bond of persons charged with committing a violent offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB536 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB536-Introduced.html
  87R2130 ADM-D
 
  By: Meza H.B. No. 536
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the entry into the Texas Crime Information Center of
  information concerning the release on bond of persons charged with
  committing a violent offense.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Article 17.50 to read as follows:
         Art. 17.50.  ENTRY OF BOND STATUS INTO TEXAS CRIME
  INFORMATION CENTER; DUTIES OF MAGISTRATES, SHERIFFS, AND
  DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. (a)  In this article:
               (1)  "Database" means the statewide law enforcement
  information system maintained by the Department of Public Safety,
  also known as the Texas Crime Information Center.
               (2)  "Violent offense" means:
                     (A)  an offense under any of the following
  sections of the Penal Code:
                           (i)  Section 19.02 (murder);
                           (ii)  Section 19.03 (capital murder);
                           (iii)  Section 20.03 (kidnapping);
                           (iv)  Section 20.04 (aggravated
  kidnapping);
                           (v)  Section 21.11 (indecency with a child);
                           (vi)  Section 22.011 (sexual assault);
                           (vii)  Section 22.02 (aggravated assault);
                           (viii)  Section 22.021 (aggravated sexual
  assault);
                           (ix)  Section 22.04 (injury to a child,
  elderly individual, or disabled individual);
                           (x)  Section 29.03 (aggravated robbery);
                           (xi)  Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse
  of young child or children); or
                           (xii)  Section 20A.03 (continuous
  trafficking of persons); and
                     (B)  any offense involving family violence as
  defined by Section 71.004, Family Code.
         (b)  As soon as practicable but not later than the next
  business day after the date a magistrate releases on bond a person
  charged with committing a violent offense, the magistrate shall
  notify the sheriff of the release and provide to the sheriff the
  following information:
               (1)  the name, sex, race, date of birth, personal
  descriptors, and residential address, including county, of the
  person released;
               (2)  any known identifying number of the person
  released, including the person's social security number or driver's
  license number; and
               (3)  if applicable, any condition of bond imposed, the
  name and county of residence of any named person the condition of
  bond is intended to protect, and the name and county of residence of
  the victim of the alleged offense.
         (c)  On receipt of the information described by Subsection
  (b), the sheriff shall enter the information into the database.
         (d)  As soon as practicable but not later than the next
  business day after the date a magistrate revokes the bond of a
  person charged with committing a violent offense, modifies the
  terms of or removes a condition of bond imposed on the person, or
  disposes of the underlying criminal charges in the person's case,
  the magistrate shall notify the sheriff and provide the sheriff
  with information that is sufficient to enable the sheriff to update
  the database accordingly.
         (e)  The Department of Public Safety shall modify the
  database to enable the database to accept and maintain detailed
  information regarding the release on bond of a person charged with
  committing a violent offense and any associated conditions of bond,
  including information described by Subsections (b) and (d).
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2022, the Department of
  Public Safety of the State of Texas shall modify the statewide law
  enforcement information system maintained by the department, also
  known as the Texas Crime Information Center, to enable the database
  to accept and maintain detailed information regarding the release
  on bond of a person charged with committing a violent offense and
  any associated conditions of bond, as required by Article 17.50(e),
  Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
  section, this Act takes effect January 1, 2022.
         (b)  Section 2 of this Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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