By: Corte H.B. No. 4337
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an annual report by the Texas Fusion Center regarding
criminal street gangs and gang-related crime.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 421.082, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) The Texas Fusion Center shall annually submit to the
governor a report regarding criminal street gangs and gang-related
crime. The report must include:
(1) an evaluation of the threat that criminal street
gangs and gang-related crime pose to the infrastructure of the
state, each county, and each municipality with a population of more
than 100,000; and
(2) recommendations on actions that may be taken to:
(A) prevent criminal street gangs from
committing human trafficking offenses;
(B) reduce criminal street gang violence;
(C) prevent the growth and proliferation of
criminal street gangs; and
(D) ensure that law enforcement personnel
receive the necessary training and education to effectively deal
with the problems created by criminal street gangs and gang-related
crime.
(e) On request, the office of the attorney general, the
Department of Public Safety, the Texas Violent Gang Task Force, the
Gang Resource System, criminal justice agencies, and juvenile
justice agencies shall provide information relating to criminal
street gangs and gang-related crime to the Texas Fusion Center.
(f) The center shall perform its duties under circumstances
prescribed by and as directed by the governor's homeland security
strategy.
SECTION 2. The Texas Fusion Center shall submit the first
annual report regarding criminal street gangs and gang-related
crime to the governor as required by Section 421.082(d), Government
Code, as added by this Act, not later than September 1, 2010.
SECTION 3. 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, 2009.