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89(R) SB 663 - Enrolled version - Bill Text
S.B. No. 663
AN ACT
relating to the approval of a community supervision and corrections
department's budget and strategic plan.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 76.002(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The district judge or district judges trying criminal
cases in each judicial district and the statutory county court
judges trying criminal cases in the county or counties served by the
judicial district shall:
(1) establish a community supervision and corrections
department; and
(2)
review
[
approve
] the department's budget and
strategic plan
following the division's approval of the budget and
plan
.
SECTION 2. Section 76.0045(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The responsibility of a judge described by Section
76.002 for budgetary decisions is limited to:
(1) appointment of a fiscal officer; and
(2)
review
[
approval
] of the department's budget
following the division's approval of the budget
.
SECTION 3. Section 509.004(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The division shall require each department to:
(1) keep financial and statistical records determined
necessary by the division;
(2) submit
the department's budget and
[
a
] strategic
plan and all supporting information requested by the division;
(3) present data requested by the division as
necessary to determine the amount of state aid for which the
department is eligible;
(4) submit periodic financial audits and statistical
reports to the division; and
(5) submit to the Department of Public Safety the full
name, address, date of birth, social security number, and driver's
license number of each person restricted to the operation of a motor
vehicle equipped with a device that uses a deep-lung breath
analysis mechanism to make impractical the operation of the motor
vehicle if ethyl alcohol is detected in the breath of the restricted
operator.
SECTION 4. The heading to Section 509.007, Government Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 509.007.
DEPARTMENT BUDGET AND
STRATEGIC PLAN.
SECTION 5. Section 509.007, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to
read as follows:
(a) The division shall require as a condition to payment of
state aid to a department or county under Section 509.011 that
:
(1)
the department submit the department's budget for
the state fiscal biennium and
a strategic plan
to the division; and
(2)
the department's budget and plan be approved by the
division
[
be submitted for the department.
The department shall
submit the plan required by this subsection.
A department may not
submit a plan under this section unless the plan is first approved
by the judges described by Section 76.002 who established the
department
].
(a-1) A
[
The
] department shall submit a revised
strategic
plan to the division each even-numbered year not later than March 1.
(a-2)
A
department's budget or strategic
plan may be amended
at any time with the approval of the division.
SECTION 6. Section 140.004, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 140.004. BUDGETS OF CERTAIN JUVENILE BOARDS [
AND
COMMUNITY SUPERVISION AND CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENTS
]. (a) This
section applies only to[
:
[
(1)
] a juvenile board, juvenile probation office, or
juvenile department established for one or more counties[
; and
[
(2)
a community supervision and corrections
department established for a judicial district
].
(b) Before the 45th day before the first day of the fiscal
year of a county, a juvenile board [
and a community supervision and
corrections department
] that
has
[
each have
] jurisdiction in the
county shall:
(1) prepare a budget for the board's [
or department's
]
next fiscal year; and
(2) hold a meeting to finalize the budget.
(c) Before the 14th day before the juvenile board [
or
community supervision and corrections department
] has a meeting to
finalize its budget, the board [
or department
] shall file with the
commissioners court:
(1) a copy of the proposed budget; and
(2) a statement containing the date of the board's [
or
department's
] meeting to finalize its budget.
(d) Before the later of the 90th day after the last day of
the juvenile board's [
or community supervision and corrections
department's
] fiscal year, or the date the county auditor's annual
report is made to the commissioners court, the board [
or
department
] shall file with the commissioners court a complete
financial statement of the board [
or department
] covering the
board's [
or department's
] preceding fiscal year.
(e) The financial statement required by Subsection (d) must
contain any information considered appropriate by the juvenile
board [
or community supervision and corrections department
] and any
information required by the commissioners court of each county in
which the board [
or department
] has jurisdiction.
(f) The budget for a juvenile board [
or community
supervision and corrections department
] may not include an
automobile allowance for a member of the governing body of the board
[
or department
] if the member holds another state, county, or
municipal office. The budget may include reimbursement of actual
travel expenses, including mileage for automobile travel, incurred
while the member is engaged in the official business of the board
[
or department
].
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________
______________________________
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 663 passed the Senate on
April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 6.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 663 passed the House on
May 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 106, Nays 32, two
present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
______________________________
Date
______________________________
Governor