REPORT.
Tex. LOC. GOV'T Code § 351.257.
in effect(a) Not later than December 1 of each odd-numbered year, a response team shall provide to the commissioners court of each county the response team serves a report that includes:
(1) a list of response team members able to participate in the quarterly meetings required by Section 351.254 (c);
(2) a copy of the written protocol developed under Section 351.256 ; and
(3) either:
(A) a biennial summary detailing:
(i) the number of sexual assault reports received by local law enforcement agencies;
(ii) the number of investigations conducted as a result of those reports;
(iii) the number of indictments presented in connection with a report and the disposition of those cases;
(iv) the number of reports of sexual assault for which no indictment was presented; and
(v) the number of evidence collection kits described by Section 420.031 , Government Code, that a law enforcement agency did not take possession of within the period required by Section 420.035 (b) or (c), Government Code, as applicable; or
(B) an explanation of the reason the response team failed to provide the information described by Paragraph (A).
(b) Not later than February 1 of each even-numbered year, the commissioners court of each county that receives a report described by Subsection (a) during the preceding year shall submit that report to the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force established under Section 772.0064 , Government Code.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 568 (S.B. 476 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.