Bill Text: TX HB2519 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the reporting of certain information on felony defendants placed on community supervision who are young adults and to certain measures to reduce the revocation rate of those defendants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2519 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2519-Comm_Sub.html
86R27599 JRR-D | |||
By: Allen | H.B. No. 2519 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2519: | |||
By: Neave | C.S.H.B. No. 2519 |
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relating to the reporting of certain information on felony | ||
defendants placed on community supervision who are young adults and | ||
to certain measures to reduce the revocation rate of those | ||
defendants. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 509, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 509.018 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 509.018. INFORMATION ON OUTCOMES OF CERTAIN FELONY | ||
DEFENDANTS PLACED ON COMMUNITY SUPERVISION; MEASURES TO REDUCE | ||
REVOCATION RATE. (a) In this section, "young adult" means a person | ||
who is at least 17 years of age but younger than 25 years of age. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
the division shall submit to the legislature a report that includes | ||
the following information: | ||
(1) the revocation rate for felony defendants placed | ||
on community supervision in each county who are young adults; | ||
(2) the percentage of the felony defendants described | ||
by Subdivision (1) who completed the period of community | ||
supervision; and | ||
(3) the recidivism rates for felony defendants | ||
described by Subdivision (1) following the first, second, and third | ||
anniversary of the date the defendants were placed on community | ||
supervision. | ||
(c) The information reported under Subsection (b) must be | ||
disaggregated by race or ethnicity, offense type, and supervision | ||
level. | ||
(d) The division may provide technical assistance to | ||
departments that serve counties in which the revocation rate for | ||
felony defendants described by Subsection (b)(1) significantly | ||
exceeds the statewide average or historically has significantly | ||
exceeded the statewide average for felony defendants described by | ||
that subsection who have a similar supervision level. | ||
(e) Technical assistance provided under Subsection (d) must | ||
include information on: | ||
(1) developmental psychology; | ||
(2) effective supervision practices for defendants | ||
who are young adults; and | ||
(3) the impact of adverse childhood experiences and | ||
past trauma on the supervision of defendants who are young adults. | ||
(f) The division shall require a department described by | ||
Subsection (d) to develop and submit to the division a corrective | ||
action plan establishing the measures the department will take to | ||
reduce the revocation rate for felony defendants described by | ||
Subsection (b)(1), including measures for creating collaborative | ||
relationships with nonprofit organizations that provide | ||
multidisciplinary services for young adults who are involved in the | ||
criminal justice system. | ||
(g) When awarding a grant to a department for the purpose of | ||
reducing the revocation rate for felony defendants described by | ||
Subsection (b)(1), the division shall give priority to departments | ||
that are required to submit a corrective action plan under | ||
Subsection (f). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |