Relating to the approval of a community supervision and corrections department's budget and strategic plan, the official 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.

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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.

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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.

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Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

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Date

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Governor