Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 60.08. Reporting

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Art. 60.08. REPORTING.  (a) The Department of Public Safety 
and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall, by rule, 
develop reporting procedures that:
	(1)  ensure that the offender processing data is reported 
from the time an offender is arrested until the time an offender is 
released;  and
	(2)  provide measures and policies designed to identify and 
eliminate redundant reporting of information to the criminal 
justice information system.
	(b)  The arresting agency shall prepare a uniform incident 
fingerprint card and initiate the reporting process for each 
offender charged with a felony or a misdemeanor not punishable by 
fine only.
	(c)  The clerk of the court exercising jurisdiction over a 
case shall report the disposition of the case to the Department of 
Public Safety.
	(d)  Except as otherwise required by applicable state laws or 
regulations, information or data required by this chapter to be 
reported to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or the 
Department of Public Safety 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 except 
in the case of an arrest.  An offender's arrest shall be reported to 
the Department of Public Safety not later than the seventh day after 
the date of the arrest.
	(e)  A court that orders the release of an offender under 
Section 6(a), Article 42.12, of this code at a time when the 
offender is under a bench warrant and not physically imprisoned in 
the institutional division shall report the release to the 
institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
not later than the seventh day after the date of the release.

Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 785, Sec. 6.01, eff. Sept. 1, 
1989.  Amended by Acts 1990, 71st Leg., 6th C.S., ch. 25, Sec. 28, 
eff. June 18, 1990;  Subsec. (a) amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., 
ch. 750, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 28, 1995.

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