85R9278 KJE-D
 
  By: Rodríguez S.B. No. 1700
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to uniform reporting of information concerning protective
  orders, concerning magistrate's orders for emergency protection,
  and concerning conditions of bond imposed on a person awaiting
  trial in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or
  trafficking case.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 5.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to
  read as follows:
         (c)  In order to ensure that officers responding to calls are
  aware of the existence and terms of protective orders, each
  municipal police department and sheriff shall establish procedures
  within the department or office to provide adequate information or
  access to information for law enforcement officers of the names of
  persons protected by a protective order and of persons to whom
  protective orders are directed. The procedures must:
               (1)  require the information described by Section
  411.042(b)(6), Government Code, to be entered into the statewide
  law enforcement information system maintained by the Department of
  Public Safety; and
               (2)  comply with the uniform protocols developed under
  Section 411.0422, Government Code.
         (c-1)  Each municipal police department and sheriff shall
  establish procedures within the department or office that require
  the information described by Section 411.042(b)(7), Government
  Code, to be entered into the statewide law enforcement information
  system maintained by the Department of Public Safety. The
  procedures must comply with the uniform protocols developed under
  Section 411.0422, Government Code.
         SECTION 2.  Article 17.292, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows:
         (g-1)  After adapting the page for purposes of this article,
  the magistrate shall use the cover page adopted by the supreme court
  under Section 85.027, Family Code, for each order for emergency
  protection issued under this article.
         SECTION 3.  Subchapter B, Chapter 85, Family Code, is
  amended by adding Section 85.027 to read as follows:
         Sec. 85.027.  PROTECTIVE ORDER COVER PAGE. (a) To
  facilitate the timely entry of information concerning protective
  orders into the statewide law enforcement information system
  maintained by the Department of Public Safety, the supreme court
  shall adopt a cover page that must be used for each protective order
  issued under this subtitle.
         (b)  The cover page must be designed to include the
  information required under Section 411.042(b)(6), Government Code.
         SECTION 4.  Section 86.001(a), Family Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  To ensure that law enforcement officers responding to
  calls are aware of the existence and terms of protective orders
  issued under this subtitle, each law enforcement agency shall
  establish procedures in the agency to provide adequate information
  or access to information for law enforcement officers of the names
  of each person protected by an order issued under this subtitle and
  of each person against whom protective orders are directed. The
  procedures must comply with the uniform protocols developed under
  Section 411.0422, Government Code.
         SECTION 5.  Section 86.005, Family Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         Sec. 86.005.  PROTECTIVE ORDER FROM ANOTHER JURISDICTION.
  To ensure that law enforcement officers responding to calls are
  aware of the existence and terms of a protective order from another
  jurisdiction, each law enforcement agency shall establish
  procedures in the agency to provide adequate information or access
  to information for law enforcement officers regarding the name of
  each person protected by an order rendered in another jurisdiction
  and of each person against whom the protective order is directed.
  The procedures must comply with the uniform protocols developed
  under Section 411.0422, Government Code.
         SECTION 6.  Subchapter C, Chapter 72, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 72.035 to read as follows:
         Sec. 72.035.  BOND CONDITIONS REPORTING FORM. (a) The
  office shall adopt a form for the reporting by law enforcement
  agencies of information concerning the conditions of bond imposed
  on a person awaiting trial in any family violence, sexual assault or
  abuse, stalking, or trafficking case as provided by Section
  411.042(b)(7).
         (b)  The form must be designed to facilitate the timely entry
  of information concerning bond conditions into the statewide law
  enforcement information system maintained by the Department of
  Public Safety.
         SECTION 7.  Section 411.042(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  The bureau of identification and records shall:
               (1)  procure and file for record photographs, pictures,
  descriptions, fingerprints, measurements, and other pertinent
  information of all persons arrested for or charged with a criminal
  offense or convicted of a criminal offense, regardless of whether
  the conviction is probated;
               (2)  collect information concerning the number and
  nature of offenses reported or known to have been committed in the
  state and the legal steps taken in connection with the offenses, and
  other information useful in the study of crime and the
  administration of justice, including information that enables the
  bureau to create a statistical breakdown of:
                     (A)  offenses in which family violence was
  involved;
                     (B)  offenses under Sections 22.011 and 22.021,
  Penal Code; and
                     (C)  offenses under Sections 20A.02 and 43.05,
  Penal Code;
               (3)  make ballistic tests of bullets and firearms and
  chemical analyses of bloodstains, cloth, materials, and other
  substances for law enforcement officers of the state;
               (4)  cooperate with identification and crime records
  bureaus in other states and the United States Department of
  Justice;
               (5)  maintain a list of all previous background checks
  for applicants for any position regulated under Chapter 1702,
  Occupations Code, who have undergone a criminal history background
  check under Section 411.119, if the check indicates a Class B
  misdemeanor or equivalent offense or a greater offense;
               (6)  collect information concerning the number and
  nature of protective orders and magistrate's orders of emergency
  protection and all other pertinent information about all persons
  subject to active orders[, including pertinent information about
  persons subject to conditions of bond imposed for the protection of
  the victim in any family violence, sexual assault or abuse,
  stalking, or trafficking case]. Information in the law enforcement
  information system relating to an active order shall include:
                     (A)  the provision of law under which the order is
  issued;
                     (B)  the name, sex, race, date of birth, personal
  descriptors, address, and county of residence of the person to whom
  the order is directed;
                     (C) [(B)]  any known identifying number of the
  person to whom the order is directed, including the person's social
  security number or driver's license number;
                     (D) [(C)]  the name and county of residence of the
  person protected by the order;
                     (E) [(D)]  the residence address and place of
  employment or business of the person protected by the order, unless
  that information is excluded from the order under Section 85.007,
  Family Code, or Article 17.292(e), Code of Criminal Procedure;
                     (F) [(E)]  the child-care facility or school
  where a child protected by the order normally resides or which the
  child normally attends, unless that information is excluded from
  the order under Section 85.007, Family Code, or Article 17.292(e),
  Code of Criminal Procedure;
                     (G) [(F)]  the relationship or former
  relationship between the person who is protected by the order and
  the person to whom the order is directed;
                     (H)  whether the person to whom the order is
  directed has a history of:
                           (i)  violent behavior involving the use of a
  weapon; or
                           (ii)  diagnosed mental illness [(G)   the
  conditions of bond imposed on the person to whom the order is
  directed, if any, for the protection of a victim in any family
  violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking case];
                     (I) [(H)]  any minimum distance the person
  subject to the order is required to maintain from the protected
  places or persons; and
                     (J) [(I)]  the date the order expires;
               (7)  collect information concerning the conditions of
  bond imposed on a person awaiting trial in any family violence,
  sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking case;
               (8)  grant access to criminal history record
  information in the manner authorized under Subchapter F;
               (9) [(8)]  collect and disseminate information
  regarding offenders with mental impairments in compliance with
  Chapter 614, Health and Safety Code; and
               (10) [(9)]  record data and maintain a state database
  for a computerized criminal history record system and computerized
  juvenile justice information system that serves:
                     (A)  as the record creation point for criminal
  history record information and juvenile justice information
  maintained by the state; and
                     (B)  as the control terminal for the entry of
  records, in accordance with federal law and regulations, federal
  executive orders, and federal policy, into the federal database
  maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
         SECTION 8.  Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Sections 411.0422 and 411.0423 to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 411.0422.  UNIFORM REPORTING OF CERTAIN INFORMATION.
  (a) The department shall adopt a form for the reporting by law
  enforcement agencies of information concerning protective orders
  and magistrate's orders for emergency protection. The form must:
               (1)  be designed to facilitate the timely entry of
  information concerning those orders into the statewide law
  enforcement information system maintained by the department; and
               (2)  include spaces to report all information required
  under Section 411.042(b)(6).
         (b)  The department, the Office of Court Administration of
  the Texas Judicial System, and the State Bar of Texas, with input
  from relevant advocacy groups, jointly shall develop uniform
  protocols for the reporting by law enforcement agencies of
  information required by Sections 411.042(b)(6) and (7).
         (c)  The protocols developed under Subsection (b) must
  require law enforcement agencies to report information required
  under Sections 411.042(b)(6) and (7) using the applicable form
  adopted by the department under Subsection (a) or by the Office of
  Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System under Section
  72.035.
         Sec. 411.0423.  REPORT RELATED TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS. (a)
  The department shall annually post on the department's Internet
  website a report on the number of protective orders or magistrate's
  orders for emergency protection reported to the department during
  the preceding year. The report must:
               (1)  be disaggregated by the provision of law under
  which the order is issued and the county in which the issuing court
  is located; and
               (2)  compare the number of protective orders or
  magistrate's orders for emergency protection reported to the
  department with the number of those orders reported to the Office of
  Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System during that year.
         (b)  The department may coordinate with the Office of Court
  Administration of the Texas Judicial System as necessary to prepare
  the report required under Subsection (a).
         SECTION 9.  Section 411.0845(i), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (i)  The release under this section of any criminal history
  record information maintained by the Federal Bureau of
  Investigation, including the computerized information submitted to
  the federal database maintained by the Federal Bureau of
  Investigation as described by Section 411.042(b)(10)(B)
  [411.042(b)(9)(B)], is subject to federal law and regulations,
  federal executive orders, and federal policy.
         SECTION 10.  (a) Not later than September 1, 2017:
               (1)  the Supreme Court of Texas shall adopt the cover
  page required under Section 85.027, Family Code, as added by this
  Act;
               (2)  the Office of Court Administration of the Texas
  Judicial System shall adopt the form required under Section 72.035,
  Government Code, as added by this Act; and
               (3)  the Department of Public Safety of the State of
  Texas shall adopt the form required under Section 411.0422(a),
  Government Code, as added by this Act.
         (b)  Not later than October 1, 2017, the Department of Public
  Safety of the State of Texas, the Office of Court Administration of
  the Texas Judicial System, and the State Bar of Texas shall develop
  the uniform protocols required under Section 411.0422, Government
  Code, as added by this Act.
         (c)  Not later than November 1, 2017, each law enforcement
  agency shall comply with the uniform protocols required under
  Section 411.0422, Government Code, as added by this Act.
         (d)  Not later than November 1, 2018, the Department of
  Public Safety of the State of Texas shall post on the department's
  Internet website the initial report required under Section
  411.0423, Government Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 11.  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of
  this section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
         (b)  Section 411.042(b), Government Code, as amended by this
  Act, takes effect November 1, 2017.