By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 965
(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2015; March 10, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 8, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; April 8, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the filing of a copy of certain records related to the
release of an accused person on personal bond.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5(a), Article 17.42, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A personal bond pretrial release office established
under this article shall:
(1) prepare a record containing information about any
accused person identified by case number only who, after review by
the office, is released by a court on personal bond;
(2) update the record on a monthly basis; and
(3) file a copy of the record with [in the office of]
the district or county clerk, as applicable based on court
jurisdiction over the categories of offenses addressed in the
records, [of the county court] in any county served by the office.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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