Bill Text: TX HB941 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of DNA records for the DNA database system.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB941 Detail]

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  By: Hernandez, Faircloth (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 941
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2015;
  April 27, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Criminal Justice; May 6, 2015, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 6, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the creation of DNA records for the DNA database system.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 102.020(h-1), Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         (h-1)  The clerk of the court shall transfer to the
  comptroller any funds received under Subsection (a)(2) or (3)
  [(a)(3)].  The comptroller shall credit the funds to the Department
  of Public Safety to help defray the cost of collecting or analyzing 
  [any analyses performed on] DNA samples provided by defendants who
  are required to pay a court cost under this article.
         SECTION 2.  Section 102.021, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 102.021.  COURT COSTS ON CONVICTION:  CODE OF CRIMINAL
  PROCEDURE.  A person convicted of an offense shall pay the
  following under the Code of Criminal Procedure, in addition to all
  other costs:
               (1)  court cost on conviction of any offense, other
  than a conviction of an offense relating to a pedestrian or the
  parking of a motor vehicle (Art. 102.0045, Code of Criminal
  Procedure)$4;
               (2)  a fee for services of prosecutor (Art. 102.008,
  Code of Criminal Procedure)$25;
               (3)  fees for services of peace officer:
                     (A)  issuing a written notice to appear in court
  for certain violations (Art. 102.011, Code of Criminal
  Procedure)$5;
                     (B)  executing or processing an issued arrest
  warrant, capias, or capias pro fine (Art. 102.011, Code of Criminal
  Procedure)$50;
                     (C)  summoning a witness (Art. 102.011, Code of
  Criminal Procedure)$5;
                     (D)  serving a writ not otherwise listed (Art.
  102.011, Code of Criminal Procedure)$35;
                     (E)  taking and approving a bond and, if
  necessary, returning the bond to courthouse (Art. 102.011, Code of
  Criminal Procedure)$10;
                     (F)  commitment or release (Art. 102.011, Code of
  Criminal Procedure)$5;
                     (G)  summoning a jury (Art. 102.011, Code of
  Criminal Procedure)$5;
                     (H)  attendance of a prisoner in habeas corpus
  case if prisoner has been remanded to custody or held to bail (Art.
  102.011, Code of Criminal Procedure)$8 each day;
                     (I)  mileage for certain services performed (Art.
  102.011, Code of Criminal Procedure)$0.29 per mile; and
                     (J)  services of a sheriff or constable who serves
  process and attends examining trial in certain cases (Art. 102.011,
  Code of Criminal Procedure)not to exceed $5;
               (4)  services  of a  peace  officer in  conveying a  
  witness  outside the  county  (Art. 102.011, Code of  
  Criminal Procedure) . . . $10 per day or  part  of a  day,  plus  
  actual  necessary  travel  expenses;
               (5)  overtime of peace officer for time spent
  testifying in the trial or traveling to or from testifying in the
  trial (Art. 102.011, Code of Criminal Procedure) actual cost;
               (6)  court costs on an offense relating to rules of the
  road, when offense occurs within a school crossing zone (Art.
  102.014, Code of Criminal Procedure)$25;
               (7)  court costs on an offense of passing a school bus
  (Art. 102.014, Code of Criminal Procedure)$25;
               (8)  court costs on an offense of truancy or
  contributing to truancy (Art. 102.014, Code of Criminal
  Procedure)$20;
               (9)  cost  for visual  recording of  intoxication  
  arrest before  conviction (Art. 102.018, Code of Criminal
  Procedure)$15;
               (10)  cost of certain evaluations (Art. 102.018, Code
  of Criminal Procedure) actual cost;
               (11)  additional costs attendant to certain
  intoxication convictions under Chapter 49, Penal Code, for
  emergency medical services, trauma facilities, and trauma care
  systems (Art. 102.0185, Code of Criminal Procedure) $100;
               (12)  additional costs attendant to certain child
  sexual  assault and  related  convictions,  for  child  abuse  
  prevention  programs (Art.  102.0186,  Code  of  Criminal  
  Procedure)  $100;
               (13)  court cost for DNA testing for certain felonies
  (Art. 102.020(a)(1), Code of Criminal Procedure) $250;
               (14)  court cost for DNA testing for the offense of
  public lewdness, [or] indecent exposure, or enticing a child (Art.
  102.020(a)(2), Code of Criminal Procedure)$50;
               (15)  court cost for DNA testing for certain felonies
  (Art. 102.020(a)(3), Code of Criminal Procedure)$34;
               (16)  if required by the court, a restitution fee for
  costs incurred in collecting restitution installments and for the
  compensation to victims of crime fund (Art. 42.037, Code of
  Criminal Procedure)$12;
               (17)  if  directed by the justice of the  peace  or
  municipal court judge  hearing the  case,  court  costs on
  conviction in a criminal action (Art. 45.041, Code of
  Criminal Procedure) . . . part or all of the costs as directed by
  the judge; and
               (18)  costs attendant to convictions under Chapter 49,
  Penal Code, and under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, to help
  fund drug court programs established under Chapter 122, 123, 124,
  or 125, Government Code, or former law (Art. 102.0178, Code of
  Criminal Procedure) . . . $60.
         SECTION 3.  Section 411.142(c), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  The director may receive, analyze, store, and destroy a
  DNA record or DNA sample for the purposes described by Section
  411.143. If a DNA sample was collected solely for the purpose of
  creating a DNA record, the director may destroy the sample after any
  test results associated with the sample are entered into the DNA
  database and the CODIS database.
         SECTION 4.  The heading to Section 411.1471, Government
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 411.1471.  DNA RECORDS OF PERSONS ARRESTED FOR, CHARGED
  WITH, OR CONVICTED OF CERTAIN OFFENSES [FELONIES].
         SECTION 5.  Sections 411.1471(a), (b), and (f), Government
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies to a defendant who is:
               (1)  indicted or waives indictment for a felony
  prohibited or punishable under any of the following Penal Code
  sections:
                     (A)  Section 20.04(a)(4);
                     (B)  Section 21.11;
                     (C)  Section 22.011;
                     (D)  Section 22.021;
                     (E)  Section 25.02;
                     (F)  Section 30.02(d);
                     (G)  Section 43.05;
                     (H)  Section 43.25;
                     (I)  Section 43.26;
                     (J)  Section 21.02; or
                     (K)  Section 20A.03;
               (2)  arrested for a felony described by Subdivision (1)
  after having been previously convicted of or placed on deferred
  adjudication for an offense described by Subdivision (1) or an
  offense punishable under Section 30.02(c)(2), Penal Code; or
               (3)  convicted of an offense under Section 21.07, [or]
  21.08, or 25.04, Penal Code.
         (b)  After a defendant described by Subsection (a)(1) is
  indicted or waives indictment, the court in which the case is
  pending shall require the defendant to provide to a law enforcement
  agency one or more specimens for the purpose of creating a DNA
  record. A law enforcement agency arresting a defendant described
  by Subsection (a)(2), immediately after fingerprinting the
  defendant and at the same location as the fingerprinting occurs,
  shall require the defendant to provide one or more specimens for the
  purpose of creating a DNA record. After a defendant described by
  Subsection (a)(3) is convicted [or placed on deferred
  adjudication], the court shall require the defendant to provide to
  a law enforcement agency one or more specimens for the purpose of
  creating a DNA record.
         (f)  A defendant who provides a DNA sample under this section
  is not required to provide a DNA sample under Section 411.148 of
  this code or under Section 11(j), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, unless the [an] attorney representing the state in the
  prosecution of the felony offense that makes Section 411.148 or
  11(j) applicable to the defendant [offenses] establishes to the
  satisfaction of the director that the interests of justice or
  public safety require that the defendant provide additional
  samples.
         SECTION 6.  The change in law made by this Act in amending
  Article 102.020, Code of Criminal Procedure, and Section 411.1471,
  Government Code, applies only to an offense committed on or after
  the effective date of this Act. An offense committed before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
  time the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense
  was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element
  of the offense occurred before that date.
         SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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