BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 788 By: Geren Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There have been calls to offer emergency service dispatchers who may be suffering from job‑related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and committed offenses in relation to this condition the opportunity to be placed in a pre-trial diversion program. H.B. 788 seeks to make certain emergency service dispatchers eligible to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 788 amends the Government Code to make an emergency service dispatcher of the state or of a political subdivision of the state eligible to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2021.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 788
By: Geren
Homeland Security & Public Safety
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 788
By: Geren
Homeland Security & Public Safety
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There have been calls to offer emergency service dispatchers who may be suffering from job‑related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and committed offenses in relation to this condition the opportunity to be placed in a pre-trial diversion program. H.B. 788 seeks to make certain emergency service dispatchers eligible to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 788 amends the Government Code to make an emergency service dispatcher of the state or of a political subdivision of the state eligible to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2021.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
There have been calls to offer emergency service dispatchers who may be suffering from job‑related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and committed offenses in relation to this condition the opportunity to be placed in a pre-trial diversion program. H.B. 788 seeks to make certain emergency service dispatchers eligible to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 788 amends the Government Code to make an emergency service dispatcher of the state or of a political subdivision of the state eligible to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2021.