By: Neave H.B. No. 4441
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requests for certain information by the Office of Court
Administration
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 71.035, Government Code, is amended by
adding subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) In accordance with its authority described in
subsection (b), the council shall request:
(1) statistics related to reductions of state jail
felony punishment to misdemeanor punishment in accordance with
Section 12.44(a) and (b), Penal code, including the number and type
of offenses for which courts sentenced defendants in under Section
12.44(a), Penal Code, and the number and type of offenses for which
court authorized prosecution of state jail felony offenses under
Section 12.44 (b), Penal Code.
(2) the number of defendants placed into pretrial
diversion or pretrial intervention programs.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.