Bill Text: TX HB3416 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to hiring and licensing certain persons as peace officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB3416 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3416-Introduced.html
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| By: Geren | H.B. No. 3416 | |
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| relating to hiring and licensing certain persons as peace officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 370, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 370. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO [ |
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| GOVERNMENT | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 370, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 370.007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 370.007. COMMISSIONING AND EMPLOYING CERTAIN PERSONS | ||
| AS PEACE OFFICERS. Notwithstanding any other law, a political | ||
| subdivision that commissions and employs peace officers may | ||
| commission and employ as a peace officer a legal permanent resident | ||
| of the United States. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter G, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1701.3095 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1701.3095. LICENSING OF LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENTS. | ||
| The commission shall issue a peace officer license to a person who | ||
| is a legal permanent resident of the United States if the person | ||
| meets the requirements of this chapter and the commission's rules. | ||
| SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall amend | ||
| rules as necessary to comply with Section 1701.3095, Occupations | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
