Bill Text: TX HB3527 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to measures to improve community supervision outcomes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Corrections [HB3527 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3527-Introduced.html
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By: Sherman, Sr. | H.B. No. 3527 |
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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, 2023. |