Bill Text: TX SB1464 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the transnational and organized crime division within the office of the attorney general.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-19 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1464 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1464-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1464 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 19, 2015, read | ||
| first time and referred to Subcommittee on Border Security; | ||
| April 14, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute to Committee on Veteran Affairs and Military | ||
| Installations; April 20, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
| Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
| April 20, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1464 | By: Lucio | |
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| relating to the creation of the transnational and organized crime | ||
| division within the office of the attorney general. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 402.038 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 402.038. TRANSNATIONAL AND ORGANIZED CRIME DIVISION. | ||
| (a) The office of the attorney general shall establish a | ||
| transnational and organized crime division. | ||
| (b) To address matters related to border security and | ||
| organized crime, the transnational and organized crime division | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) establish within the division a prosecution unit | ||
| to provide critical assistance to local prosecutors; | ||
| (2) using existing funds, establish within the | ||
| division a trafficking of persons unit to: | ||
| (A) assist local law enforcement agencies and | ||
| local prosecutors in investigating and prosecuting trafficking of | ||
| persons and related crimes; and | ||
| (B) work with the appropriate local and state | ||
| agencies to identify victims of trafficking of persons and to | ||
| provide the types of assistance available for those victims under | ||
| Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure; and | ||
| (3) develop initiatives to provide greater state | ||
| assistance, support, and coordination among state law enforcement | ||
| agencies, local law enforcement agencies, and local prosecutors. | ||
| (c) Assistance provided by the division under this section | ||
| may include the assistance authorized under Section 402.028. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2015, the office of | ||
| the attorney general shall establish the transnational and | ||
| organized crime division as required by Section 402.038, Government | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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