Bill Text: TX HB3021 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to sales and use tax revenue of municipalities that adopt budgets that defund municipal police departments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 34-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3021 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3021-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Burns | H.B. No. 3021 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3021: | |||
By: Sanford | C.S.H.B. No. 3021 |
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relating to sales and use tax revenue of municipalities that adopt | ||
budgets that defund municipal police departments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 4, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 109 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 109. DETERMINATION OF DEFUNDING MUNICIPALITIES | ||
Sec. 109.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "division" | ||
means the criminal justice division of the office of the governor. | ||
Sec. 109.002. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. This chapter | ||
applies only to a municipality with a population of more than | ||
250,000. | ||
Sec. 109.003. DEFUNDING DETERMINATION. Except as provided | ||
by Section 109.004, a defunding municipality is a municipality: | ||
(1) that adopts a budget for a fiscal year that, in | ||
comparison to the municipality's preceding fiscal year, reduces the | ||
appropriation to the municipality's police department; and | ||
(2) for which the division issues a written | ||
determination finding that the municipality has made the reduction | ||
described by Subdivision (1). | ||
Sec. 109.0035. INITIAL DETERMINATION. In making a | ||
determination of whether a municipality is a defunding municipality | ||
under Section 109.003 according to the budget adopted for the first | ||
fiscal year beginning on or after September 1, 2021, the division | ||
shall compare the appropriation to the municipality's police | ||
department in that budget to the appropriation to that department | ||
in the budget of the preceding fiscal year or the second preceding | ||
fiscal year, whichever is greater. This section expires September | ||
1, 2023. | ||
Sec. 109.004. EXCEPTIONS. A municipality is not considered | ||
to be a defunding municipality under Section 109.003 if: | ||
(1) for a fiscal year in which the municipality adopts | ||
a budget that is less than the budget for the preceding fiscal year, | ||
the percentage reduction to the appropriation to the municipality's | ||
police department does not exceed the percentage reduction to the | ||
total budget; or | ||
(2) before the adoption of a budget, the municipality | ||
applies for and is granted approval from the division for a | ||
reduction to the appropriation to the municipality's police | ||
department to account for: | ||
(A) capital expenditures related to law | ||
enforcement during the preceding fiscal year; | ||
(B) the municipality's response to a state of | ||
disaster declared under Section 418.014, Government Code; or | ||
(C) another reason approved by the division. | ||
Sec. 109.005. TERMINATION OF DEFUNDING DETERMINATION. A | ||
municipality's defunding determination under Section 109.003 | ||
continues until the division issues a written determination finding | ||
that the municipality has reversed the reduction, adjusted for | ||
inflation, described by Section 109.003(1). | ||
Sec. 109.006. DIVISION DUTIES. (a) The division shall: | ||
(1) compute the inflation rate used to make | ||
determinations under Section 109.005 each state fiscal year using a | ||
price index that accurately reports changes in the purchasing power | ||
of the dollar for municipalities in this state; and | ||
(2) publish the inflation rate in the Texas Register. | ||
(b) The division shall adopt rules establishing the | ||
criteria the division uses to approve reductions under Section | ||
109.004(2). | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 321, Tax Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 321.5025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 321.5025. DISTRIBUTION OF TRUST FUNDS TO DEFUNDING | ||
MUNICIPALITY. (a) In this section, "defunding municipality" means | ||
a municipality that is considered to be a defunding municipality | ||
for the current state fiscal year under Chapter 109, Local | ||
Government Code. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 321.502, the comptroller may | ||
not, before July 1 of each state fiscal year, send to a defunding | ||
municipality its share of the taxes collected by the comptroller | ||
under this chapter during the state fiscal year. Before sending the | ||
defunding municipality its share of the taxes, the comptroller | ||
shall deduct the amount reported to the comptroller for the | ||
defunding municipality under Subsection (c) and credit that | ||
deducted amount to the general revenue fund. Money credited to the | ||
general revenue fund under this subsection may be appropriated only | ||
to the Department of Public Safety. | ||
(c) Not later than August 1 of each state fiscal year, the | ||
criminal justice division of the governor's office shall report to | ||
the comptroller for each defunding municipality the amount of money | ||
the state spent in that state fiscal year to provide law enforcement | ||
services in that defunding municipality. | ||
SECTION 3. Chapter 109, Local Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a budget adopted for a fiscal year that | ||
begins on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 321.5025, Tax Code, as added by this Act, | ||
applies only to a distribution of municipal sales and use tax | ||
revenue to a municipality in a state fiscal year that begins on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |