Bill Text: TX SB2114 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain duties of law enforcement agencies concerning certain information subject to disclosure to a defendant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2114 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2114-Introduced.html
  86R12880 MAW-D
 
  By: West S.B. No. 2114
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain duties of peace officers and law enforcement
  agencies concerning certain information subject to disclosure to a
  defendant.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Article 2.1397 to read as follows:
         Art. 2.1397.  DUTIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FILING CASE.
  (a) A law enforcement agency filing a case with the attorney
  representing the state shall submit to the attorney representing
  the state a written statement by a peace officer employed by the
  agency acknowledging that all documents, items, and information in
  the possession of the agency that are required to be disclosed to
  the defendant in the case under Article 39.14(h) have been
  transmitted to the attorney representing the state.
         (b)  If at any time after the case is filed with the attorney
  representing the state the law enforcement agency discovers or
  acquires any additional document, item, or information required to
  be disclosed to the defendant under Article 39.14(h) or (k), a peace
  officer employed by the agency shall promptly transmit the
  document, item, or information to the attorney representing the
  state.
         (c)  A law enforcement agency shall promptly disclose to each
  attorney representing the state with whom the agency files cases
  the identity of each peace officer or other employee of the agency
  for whom a finding of misconduct has been sustained if that finding
  would be required to be disclosed to a defendant under Article
  39.14.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1701.501(a), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), the commission
  shall revoke or suspend a license, place on probation a person whose
  license has been suspended, or reprimand a license holder for a
  violation of:
               (1)  this chapter;
               (2)  the reporting requirements provided by Articles
  2.132 and 2.134, Code of Criminal Procedure;
               (3)  a duty imposed by Article 2.1397, Code of Criminal
  Procedure; or
               (4) [(3)]  a commission rule.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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