Bill Text: TX HB2339 | 2019-2020 | 86th 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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB2339 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2339-Introduced.html
| 86R10804 ADM-D | ||
| By: Meza | H.B. No. 2339 | |
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| 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, address, and county of residence 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, 2020, 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, 2020. | ||
| (b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
