Bill Text: TX HB599 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the delivery of certain mental health records of a defendant to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-20 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB599 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB599-Introduced.html
| 86R3063 ADM-D | ||
| By: Price | H.B. No. 599 | |
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| relating to the delivery of certain mental health records of a | ||
| defendant to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 8(c), Article 42.09, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) A county that transfers a defendant to the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice under this article shall also | ||
| deliver to the designated officer any presentence or postsentence | ||
| investigation report, revocation report, psychological or | ||
| psychiatric evaluation of the defendant, including a written | ||
| assessment provided to a court under Article 16.22(a)(1)(B) or an | ||
| evaluation prepared for the juvenile court before transferring the | ||
| defendant to criminal court and contained in the criminal | ||
| prosecutor's file, and available social or psychological | ||
| background information relating to the defendant and may deliver to | ||
| the designated officer any additional information upon which the | ||
| judge or jury bases the punishment decision. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
