Bill Text: TX HB264 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a report by the Department of Public Safety of certain information on border crime and other criminal activity related to border security.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB264 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB264-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | H.B. No. 264 |
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relating to a report by the Department of Public Safety of certain | ||
information on border crime and other criminal activity related to | ||
border security. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.055 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.055. ANNUAL REPORT ON BORDER CRIME AND OTHER | ||
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. (a) Not later than January 30 of each year, the | ||
department shall submit to the legislature a report on border crime | ||
and other criminal activity. The report must include: | ||
(1) statistics for each month of the preceding year | ||
and yearly totals of all border crime, as defined by Section | ||
772.0071, and other criminal activity the department determines | ||
relates to border security that occurred in each county included in | ||
a department region that is adjacent to the Texas-Mexico border; | ||
and | ||
(2) statewide crime statistics for the crimes reported | ||
under Subdivision (1). | ||
(b) In compiling the information for the report, the | ||
department shall use information available in the National | ||
Incident-Based Reporting System of the Uniform Crime Reporting | ||
Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Texas | ||
Incident-Based Reporting System of the department. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |