Bill Text: TX HB2384 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to measures to improve community supervision outcomes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB2384 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2384-Engrossed.html
| 87R21167 JRR-F | ||
| By: Sherman, Sr. | H.B. No. 2384 | |
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| relating to measures to improve community supervision outcomes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 509.003, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) The division shall allow departments to implement | ||
| reporting intervals for defendants directly supervised by the | ||
| departments that are determined by risk, with higher-risk | ||
| defendants reporting at more frequent intervals than lower-risk | ||
| defendants. A reporting interval for a low-risk defendant may not | ||
| exceed 12 months. | ||
| (f) The division shall prepare and make available guidance | ||
| documents to assist departments and judges in determining best | ||
| practices for the use of progressive sanctions. | ||
| (g) The division shall implement an online technical | ||
| assistance library that includes online training for purposes of | ||
| improving the rate of successful completion of community | ||
| supervision for all departments and judges in this state. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 509.011, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The division may not reduce the amount of funding | ||
| payable to a department under Subsection (a) based on the reporting | ||
| interval of a defendant supervised by the department. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 509.013, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) In awarding a grant under a grant program, the division | ||
| shall give priority to departments that: | ||
| (1) provide or receive training or technical | ||
| assistance under the program implemented under Section 509.020; or | ||
| (2) implement innovative or cost-effective methods | ||
| under that program. | ||
| (d) The division may provide grants to departments for the | ||
| purpose of employing certified peer support specialists, certified | ||
| recovery coaches, and certified reentry support specialists to | ||
| provide peer-to-peer support for defendants on community | ||
| supervision and to assist those defendants in successfully | ||
| completing the period of community supervision. | ||
| SECTION 4. Chapter 509, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Sections 509.019 and 509.020 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 509.019. ANNUAL REPORT ON COMMUNITY SUPERVISION | ||
| OUTCOMES. (a) Not later than April 1 of each year, the division | ||
| shall submit a report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the | ||
| speaker of the house of representatives, each member of the | ||
| legislature, each department, and each district court, office of an | ||
| attorney representing the state, and public defender's office in | ||
| this state. The report must include: | ||
| (1) community supervision outcomes for the preceding | ||
| calendar year for each department, county, district court, and | ||
| constitutional or statutory county court with criminal | ||
| jurisdiction, including: | ||
| (A) the revocation rate of defendants placed on | ||
| community supervision; | ||
| (B) the proportion of terminations of the period | ||
| of community supervision that resulted in: | ||
| (i) the defendant receiving a discharge | ||
| following successful completion of community supervision; | ||
| (ii) the defendant receiving a discharge | ||
| following an early termination of community supervision under | ||
| Article 42A.111 or 42A.701, Code of Criminal Procedure; or | ||
| (iii) the revocation of community | ||
| supervision; and | ||
| (C) the number of: | ||
| (i) revocations of community supervision | ||
| that resulted from a plea bargain agreement; | ||
| (ii) revocations of community supervision | ||
| in cases in which the department supervising the defendant had | ||
| recommended the continuation of community supervision; | ||
| (iii) motions to adjudicate or revoke | ||
| community supervision that did not result in an adjudication of | ||
| guilt or the revocation of community supervision; and | ||
| (iv) motions to adjudicate or revoke | ||
| community supervision that resulted in the defendant being ordered | ||
| to complete a treatment program in lieu of an adjudication of guilt | ||
| or revocation of community supervision; | ||
| (2) a comparison of the outcomes described by | ||
| Subdivision (1) to: | ||
| (A) the statewide data for the outcomes; and | ||
| (B) if applicable, the outcomes of comparable | ||
| courts that have a rate of successful completion of community | ||
| supervision that is above the statewide average; and | ||
| (3) a detailed summary of the division's efforts to | ||
| reduce the revocation rate of defendants placed on community | ||
| supervision. | ||
| (b) The division shall make the report available on the | ||
| division's Internet website. | ||
| Sec. 509.020. PROGRAM FOR IMPROVING RATE OF SUCCESSFUL | ||
| COMPLETION OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. The division shall implement | ||
| a program in which departments with a rate of successful completion | ||
| of community supervision that is above the statewide average | ||
| provide training and technical assistance to other departments for | ||
| the purpose of improving the successful completion rate of those | ||
| departments or implementing innovative or cost-effective methods | ||
| in those departments. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
