Bill Text: TX HB3426 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing inmates with state-issued identification on release or discharge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Corrections [HB3426 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3426-Introduced.html
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By: Bryant | H.B. No. 3426 |
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relating to providing inmates with state-issued identification on | ||
release or discharge. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 501.0165, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The department shall submit a request under Subsection | ||
(a)(2) as soon as is practicable to enable the department to provide | ||
the inmate with the personal identification certificate when the | ||
department discharges or releases the inmate but not later than: | ||
(1) the 30th day before the date the inmate is | ||
scheduled to be discharged; or | ||
(2) the 15th day after the date the department is | ||
notified that the inmate is to be released on parole, mandatory | ||
supervision, or conditional pardon. | ||
(c) The department, the Department of Public Safety, and the | ||
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Services shall by rule adopt a memorandum of understanding that | ||
establishes their respective responsibilities with respect to the | ||
issuance of a personal identification certificate to an inmate, | ||
including responsibilities related to verification of the inmate's | ||
identity. The memorandum of understanding must require: | ||
(1) the Department of State Health Services to | ||
electronically verify the birth record of an inmate whose name and | ||
any other personal information is provided by the department and to | ||
electronically report the recorded filing information to the | ||
Department of Public Safety to validate the identity of an inmate | ||
under this section; and | ||
(2) the department and the Department of Public Safety | ||
to establish procedures or other measures necessary to ensure that | ||
inmates described by Subsection (a)(2) are provided with a personal | ||
identification certificate when the department discharges or | ||
releases the inmates. | ||
(c-1) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
the department shall: | ||
(1) submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
the speaker of the house of representatives, and each standing | ||
committee of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over the | ||
department a written report that contains the following information | ||
for the two-year period proceeding the date of the report: | ||
(A) the number of inmates discharged or released | ||
on parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon without a | ||
valid license or personal identification certificate; and | ||
(B) a summary of: | ||
(i) the reasons inmates described by | ||
Paragraph (A) were discharged or released without being provided a | ||
personal identification certificate; and | ||
(ii) the actions being implemented to | ||
address the reasons identified under Subparagraph (i); and | ||
(2) publish the report on the department's Internet | ||
website. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to the discharge or release of an inmate on parole, mandatory | ||
supervision, or conditional pardon that occurs on or after December | ||
1, 2023. A discharge or release that occurs before that date is | ||
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date | ||
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |