Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1	85R19115 KJE-D
2	2	By: Johnson of Dallas H.B. No. 673
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 673:
4	4	By: Elkins C.S.H.B. No. 673
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to certain reporting requirements for law enforcement
10	10	agencies and to the creation of a criminal justice web portal by the
11	11	office of the attorney general.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Article 2.139(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, as
14	14	added by Chapter 516 (H.B. 1036), Acts of the 84th Legislature,
15	15	Regular Session, 2015, is amended to read as follows:
16	16	(e) Not later than March [February] 1 of each year, the
17	17	office of the attorney general shall submit a report regarding all
18	18	officer-involved injuries or deaths that occurred during the
19	19	preceding year to the governor and the standing legislative
20	20	committees with primary jurisdiction over criminal justice
21	21	matters. The report must include:
22	22	(1) the total number of officer-involved injuries or
23	23	deaths;
24	24	(2) a summary of the reports submitted to the office
25	25	under this article; and
26	26	(3) a copy of each report submitted to the office under
27	27	this article.
28	28	SECTION 2. Article 2.1395(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
29	29	is amended to read as follows:
30	30	(c) Not later than March [February] 1 of each year, the
31	31	office of the attorney general shall submit a report regarding all
32	32	incidents described by Subsection (a) that occurred during the
33	33	preceding year to the governor and the standing legislative
34	34	committees with primary jurisdiction over criminal justice
35	35	matters. The report must include:
36	36	(1) the total number of incidents that occurred;
37	37	(2) a summary of the reports submitted to the office
38	38	under this article; and
39	39	(3) a copy of each report submitted to the office under
40	40	this article.
41	41	SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, is
42	42	amended by adding Section 402.040 to read as follows:
43	43	Sec. 402.040. CRIMINAL JUSTICE WEB PORTAL. (a) The office
44	44	of the attorney general shall develop and maintain a web portal to
45	45	collect, compile, and analyze data related to criminal justice in
46	46	this state. The office shall ensure that the web portal is
47	47	accessible through the state electronic Internet portal project.
48	48	(b) The attorney general shall direct each law enforcement
49	49	agency to submit through the web portal any report required to be
50	50	submitted by the agency to the office of the attorney general under
51	51	any law, including information reported under Article 2.139, Code
52	52	of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 516 (H.B. 1036), Acts of
53	53	the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, and Article 2.1395,
54	54	Code of Criminal Procedure, but excluding information reported
55	55	under Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure.
56	56	(c) The web portal must:
57	57	(1) provide access to reports submitted to the office
58	58	of the attorney general through the web portal, other than reports
59	59	that are confidential or protected from disclosure under state or
60	60	federal law; and
61	61	(2) include an interactive dashboard that provides an
62	62	analysis and a visual representation of the data included in the
63	63	reports described by Subdivision (1).
64	64	(d) The reports and dashboard required by Subsection (c)
65	65	must be accessible to the public.
66	66	(e) In developing the web portal, the office of the attorney
67	67	general may contract or consult with a nonprofit organization that
68	68	specializes in web-based data analysis.
69	69	SECTION 4. Not later than September 1, 2018, the office of
70	70	the attorney general shall develop the web portal required under
71	71	Section 402.040, Government Code, as added by this Act.
72	72	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.