87R1029 AJZ-D
By: Miles S.B. No. 349
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to including certain demographic information in federal
incident-based reporting of information and statistics concerning
offenses committed in this state.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 411.0541 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.0541. REQUIRED INFORMATION FOR FEDERAL
INCIDENT-BASED CRIME STATISTICS REPORTING. The department and all
local law enforcement agencies that use an incident-based reporting
system to report information and statistics concerning criminal
offenses committed in this state to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, as a part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall include the ethnicity of
an arrestee in the reported incident.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.