Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 509 - Community Justice Assistance Division

• Texas Section 509.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Community corrections facility" means a physical structure, established by the judges described by Section 76.002 after authorization of the establishment of...
• Texas Section 509.002 - Purpose
  The purpose of this chapter is to: (1) allow localities to increase their involvement and responsibility in developing sentencing programs that provide effective sanctions for...
• Texas Section 509.003 - Standards And Procedures
  (a) The division shall propose and the board shall adopt reasonable rules establishing: (1) minimum standards for programs, community corrections facilities and other facilities, equipment,...
• Texas Section 509.004 - Records, Reports, And Information Systems
  (a) The division shall require each department to: (1) keep financial and statistical records determined necessary by the division; (2) submit a strategic plan and...
• Texas Section 509.0041 - Use Of Risk And Needs Assessment Instrument
  The division shall require each department to use the risk and needs assessment instrument adopted by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under Section 501.0921...
• Texas Section 509.005 - Inspections; Audits; Evaluations
  The community justice assistance division shall from time to time inspect and evaluate and the internal audit division may at any reasonable time conduct an...
• Texas Section 509.006 - Community Corrections Facilities
  (a) To establish and maintain community corrections facilities, the division may: (1) fund division-managed facilities; (2) fund contracts for facilities that are managed by departments,...
• Texas Section 509.007 - Strategic Plan
  (a) The division shall require as a condition to payment of state aid to a department or county under Section 509.011 that a strategic plan...
• Texas Section 509.0071 - Commitment Reduction Plan
  (a) In addition to submitting a strategic plan to the division under Section 509.007, a department or a regional partnership of departments may submit a...
• Texas Section 509.008 - Officer Certification
  (a) The division shall establish officer certification programs for department residential officers and department supervision officers. A program must include coursework relating to the proper...
• Texas Section 509.009 - Training
  The division may provide pre-service, in-service, and educational training and technical assistance to departments to promote compliance with the standards under this chapter and to...
• Texas Section 509.010 - Public Meeting
  (a) The division may not take an action under Sections 509.006(a)(1) through (6) relating to a community corrections facility established after August 31, 1989, unless...
• Texas Section 509.011 - Payment Of State Aid
  (a) If the division determines that a department complies with division standards and if the department has submitted a strategic plan under Section 509.007 and...
• Texas Section 509.012 - Refusal Or Suspension Of State Aid
  (a) The division shall take one or more of the following actions against a department that the division determines is not in substantial compliance with...
• Texas Section 509.013 - Grant Program Administration
  (a) In this section, "grant program" means a grant program administered by the division through which the division awards grants to departments through an application...
• Texas Section 509.014 - Study Regarding Performance-based Funding
  (a) The division shall: (1) review the funding formulas specified under Section 509.011 and study the feasibility of adopting performance-based funding formulas, including whether the...
• Texas Section 509.015 - Treatment Standards For Certain State Jail Felonies
  The division shall propose and the board shall adopt best practices standards for substance abuse treatment conditions imposed under Section 15(c)(2), Article 42.12, Code of...
• Texas Section 509.015 - Treatment Standards For Certain State Jail Felonies
  The division shall propose and the board shall adopt best practices standards for substance abuse treatment conditions imposed under Article 42A.554(c), Code of Criminal Procedure....
• Texas Section 509.016 - Prison Diversion Progressive Sanctions Program
  (a) The division shall provide grants to selected departments for the implementation of a system of progressive sanctions designed to reduce the revocation rate of...
• Texas Section 509.017 - Special Allocation For Certain Defendants Placed On State Jail Felony Community Supervision
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall adopt policies and procedures to: (1) determine the cost savings to...
• Texas Section 509.017 - Special Allocation For Certain Defendants Placed On State Jail Felony Community Supervision
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall adopt policies and procedures to: (1) determine the cost savings to...

Last modified: September 28, 2016