86R1037 MCK-D
By: Blanco H.B. No. 264
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a report by the Department of Public Safety of certain
information on border crime and other criminal activity related to
border security.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 411.055 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.055. ANNUAL REPORT ON BORDER CRIME AND OTHER
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. (a) Not later than January 30 of each year, the
department shall submit to the legislature a report on border crime
and other criminal activity. The report must include:
(1) statistics for each month of the preceding year
and yearly totals of all border crime, as defined by Section
772.0071, and other criminal activity the department determines
relates to border security that occurred in each county included in
a department region that is adjacent to the Texas-Mexico border;
and
(2) statewide crime statistics for the crimes reported
under Subdivision (1).
(b) In compiling the information for the report, the
department shall use information available in the National
Incident-Based Reporting System of the Uniform Crime Reporting
Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Texas
Incident-Based Reporting System of the department.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.