S.B. No. 396
AN ACT
relating to the interagency exchange of information regarding
certain offenders with special needs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Subsection (c), Section
614.017, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(1) "Agency" includes any of the following entities
and individuals, a person with an agency relationship with one of
the following entities or individuals, and a person who contracts
with one or more of the following entities or individuals:
(A) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and
the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee;
(B) the Board of Pardons and Paroles;
(C) the [Texas] Department of State [Mental]
Health Services [and Mental Retardation];
(D) the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;
(E) the Texas Youth Commission;
(F) the Department of Assistive and
Rehabilitative Services [Texas Rehabilitation Commission];
(G) the Texas Education Agency;
(H) the [Criminal Justice Policy Council;
[(I) the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse;
[(J) the] Commission on Jail Standards;
(I) [(K)] the [Texas] Department of Aging and
Disability [Human] Services;
(J) [(L) the Texas Department on Aging;
[(M)] the Texas School for the Blind and Visually
Impaired;
(K) [(N) the Texas Department of Health;
[(O) the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard
of Hearing;
[(P)] community supervision and corrections
departments;
(L) [(Q)] personal bond pretrial release offices
established under Article 17.42, Code of Criminal Procedure;
(M) [(R)] local jails regulated by the Commission
on Jail Standards;
(N) [(S)] a municipal or county health
department;
(O) [(T)] a hospital district;
(P) [(U)] a judge of this state with jurisdiction
over criminal cases; and
(Q) [(V)] an attorney who is appointed or
retained to represent a special needs offender.
SECTION 2. 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, 2005.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 396 passed the Senate on
April 14, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 20, 2005, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 396 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 19, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 138,
Nays 0, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor