Tex. Local Government Code § 351.257

This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 351.257, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.

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§ 351.257. REPORT.

Official statutory text

(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.

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