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Full Text of SB1598  98th General Assembly

SB1598ham002 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

Filed: 5/9/2013

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1598

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1598 by replacing
3line 8 on page 1 through line 7 on page 3 with the following:
4    "(a) Ethnic and racial data for every adult or juvenile
5arrested shall be collected at the following points of contact
6by the entity identified in this subsection or another entity
7authorized and qualified to collect and report on this data:
8        (1) at arrest or booking, by the supervising law
9    enforcement agency;
10        (2) upon admittance to the Department of Corrections,
11    by the Department of Corrections;
12        (3) upon admittance to the Department of Juvenile
13    Justice, by the Department of Juvenile Justice; and
14        (3) upon transfer from the Department of Juvenile
15    Justice to the Department of Corrections, by the Department
16    of Juvenile Justice.
17    (b) Ethnic and racial data shall be collected through
18selection of one of the following categories:

 

 

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1        (1) American Indian or Alaskan Native;
2        (2) Asian or Pacific Islander;
3        (3) Black or African American;
4        (4) White or Caucasian;
5        (5) Hispanic or Latino; or
6        (6) Unknown.
7    (c) The collecting entity shall make a good-faith effort to
8collect race and ethnicity information as self-reported by the
9adult or juvenile. If the adult or juvenile is unable or
10unwilling to provide race and ethnicity information, the
11collecting entity shall make a good-faith effort to deduce the
12race and ethnicity of the adult or juvenile."; and
 
13on page 12, line 16, by deleting "subsection (e) of"; and
 
14on page 13, line 2, by deleting "subsection (e) of"; and
 
15on page 15, by replacing lines 22 and 23 with the following:
16    "Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
171, 2015.".