By: Flores S.B. No. 860
(In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2025; February 13, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to abolishing the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight
Committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 328, Government Code, is repealed.
SECTION 2. Section 493.027(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The director annually shall submit a report to each
standing committee of the legislature with primary jurisdiction
over the department [the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight
Committee] on the outcome of any meetings held under this section.
The report must:
(1) be signed by the director and each representative
of an employee organization described by Subsection (a) that
participates in the meetings; and
(2) include a statement from each party regarding the
impact of the meetings on the recruitment and retention of
department employees and on employee morale.
SECTION 3. Section 508.1445(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The board annually shall submit a report to [the
Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee,] the lieutenant
governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the
presiding officers of the standing committees in the senate and
house of representatives primarily responsible for criminal
justice regarding the board's application of the parole guidelines
adopted under Section 508.144.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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