Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
Filed: 5/7/2013
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1598
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1598 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | line 8 on page 1 through line 7 on page 3 with the following:
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| 4 | "(a) Ethnic and racial data for every adult or juvenile | ||||||
| 5 | arrested shall be collected at the following points of contact | ||||||
| 6 | by the entity identified in this subsection or another entity | ||||||
| 7 | authorized 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 | ||||||
| 18 | selection 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 | ||||||
| 8 | collect race and ethnicity information as self-reported by the | ||||||
| 9 | adult or juvenile. If the adult or juvenile is unable or | ||||||
| 10 | unwilling to provide race and ethnicity information, the | ||||||
| 11 | collecting entity shall make a good-faith effort to deduce the | ||||||
| 12 | race and ethnicity of the adult or juvenile."; and | ||||||
| 13 | on page 12, line 16, by deleting "subsection (e) of"; and | ||||||
| 14 | on page 13, line 2, by deleting "subsection (e) of"; and | ||||||
| 15 | on page 15, by replacing lines 22 and 23 with the following: | ||||||
| 16 | "Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
| 17 | 1, 2015.".
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