SB376 - Relating to including certain demographic information in federal incident-based reporting of information and statistics concerning offenses committed in this state.

  89R450 AJZ-D     By: Miles S.B. No. 376       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to including certain demographic information in federal   incident-based reporting of information and statistics concerning   offenses committed in this state.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is   amended by adding Section 411.0542 to read as follows:           Sec.   411.0542.     REQUIRED INFORMATION FOR FEDERAL   INCIDENT-BASED CRIME STATISTICS REPORTING. The department and all   local law enforcement agencies that use an incident-based reporting   system to report information and statistics concerning criminal   offenses committed in this state to the Federal Bureau of   Investigation, as a part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of   the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall include the ethnicity of   an arrestee in the reported incident.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.