By: Marquez (Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez) H.B. No. 2472
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011;
May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 21, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 21, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the reporting of certain warrant or capias information
to the national crime information center.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 2.195, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
Art. 2.195. [DUTY TO] REPORT OF WARRANT OR CAPIAS
INFORMATION. Not later than the 30th day after [Within 30 days of]
the date [day] the court clerk issues the warrant or capias, the
sheriff:
(1) shall report to the national crime information
center each warrant or capias issued for a defendant charged with a
felony who fails to appear in court when summoned; and
(2) may [shall] report to the national crime
information center each warrant or capias issued for a defendant
charged with a misdemeanor [an offense] other than a Class C
misdemeanor who fails to appear in court when summoned.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a warrant or capias issued on or after the effective date of this
Act. A warrant or capias issued before the effective date of this
Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the warrant or
capias was issued, and the former law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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