88R23668 MCF-F
By: Guillen H.B. No. 4382
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the timely reporting of criminal case dispositions to
the Department of Public Safety and to the allocation of certain
grant money.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 66.252, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e-1) to
read as follows:
(d) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (e) and
(e-1) or as otherwise required by applicable state law or rule,
information or data required by this chapter to be reported to the
Department of Public Safety or the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice shall be reported promptly but not later than the 30th day
after the date on which the information or data is received by the
agency responsible for reporting it.
(e-1) A clerk of court shall report to the Department of
Public Safety the dispositions of criminal cases in the court,
including the disposition of an appeal of a criminal case made to
the court, not later than the 14th business day after the date each
disposition becomes final. Each month, the department shall
aggregate on a county-wide basis information relating to the
timeliness of the dispositions reported for that month by the
clerks of court in each county under this subsection and shall
determine the corresponding percentage of case dispositions that
were timely reported for that county for that period.
SECTION 2. Article 66.402, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
Art. 66.402. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR ALLOCATION OF
CERTAIN GRANT MONEY. (a) Before allocating money to a county from
any federal or state grant program for the enhancement of criminal
justice programs, an agency of the state must certify that, using
all or part of the allocated money, the county has taken or will
take all action necessary to provide the Department of Public
Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice any criminal
history records maintained by the county in the manner specified
for purposes of those departments.
(b) Before allocating grant money to a county under Chapter
772, Government Code, the criminal justice division of the
governor's office must certify that, in at least 30 of the 36 months
preceding the date of the grant application, the county
consistently reported to the Department of Public Safety not less
than 90 percent of the dispositions of criminal cases in the county
not later than the 14th business day after the date the disposition
becomes final, as determined from reports submitted to the
department by clerks of the court in that county under Article
66.252(e-1). On request of the division, the department shall
provide to the division the applicable information aggregated for a
county under that subsection.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.