Bill Text: TX SB1896 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the investigation of the death of a prisoner in county jail.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Referred to County Affairs [SB1896 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1896-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the investigation of the death of a prisoner in county jail.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Referred to County Affairs [SB1896 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1896-Comm_Sub.html
By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 1896 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2023; March 20, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 27, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 27, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1896 | By: Flores |
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relating to the investigation of the death of a prisoner in county | ||
jail. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 511.021(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) On the death of a prisoner in a county jail, other than a | ||
death from natural causes as determined by a physician during an | ||
autopsy or examination of the deceased prisoner, the commission | ||
shall appoint a law enforcement agency, other than the local law | ||
enforcement agency that operates the county jail, to investigate | ||
the death as soon as possible. Except as otherwise provided by | ||
Subsection (b), the appointed law enforcement agency shall conduct | ||
the investigation. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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