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
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 |
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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 | ||
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |