Bill Text: TX HB480 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the continuing education requirements for certain peace officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB480 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB480-Introduced.html
  82R2311 EES-D
 
  By: Fletcher H.B. No. 480
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the continuing education requirements for certain peace
  officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 96.641, Education Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 96.641.  INITIAL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR
  POLICE CHIEFS AND COMMAND STAFF
         SECTION 2.  Section 96.641, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  The institute may establish and offer a continuing
  education program for command staff for individuals who are second
  in command to police chiefs. The command staff continuing
  education program must satisfy the requirements for the police
  chief continuing education program under Subsection (a).
         SECTION 3.  Section 1701.351, Occupations Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  A peace officer who is second in command to a police
  chief of a law enforcement agency and who attends a continuing
  education program for command staff provided by the Bill Blackwood
  Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas under Section 96.641,
  Education Code, is exempt from the continuing education
  requirements of this subchapter.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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