Bill Text: TX HB85 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program to provide grants to law enforcement agencies to equip certain motor vehicles with bullet-resistant windshields.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-20 - Filed [HB85 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB85-Introduced.html
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| By: White | H.B. No. 85 | |
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| relating to a grant program to provide grants to law enforcement | ||
| agencies to equip certain motor vehicles with bullet-resistant | ||
| windshields. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 772, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 772.0079 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 772.0079. BULLET-RESISTANT WINDSHIELD GRANT PROGRAM. | ||
| (a) In this section, "criminal justice division" means the | ||
| criminal justice division established under Section 772.006. | ||
| (b) The criminal justice division shall establish and | ||
| administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to a law | ||
| enforcement agency in this state, other than the Department of | ||
| Public Safety, for the purpose of equipping all motor vehicles used | ||
| by officers of the agency in discharging the officers' official | ||
| duties with bullet-resistant windshields. | ||
| (c) The criminal justice division shall establish: | ||
| (1) eligibility criteria for grant applicants; | ||
| (2) grant application procedures; | ||
| (3) guidelines relating to grant amounts; | ||
| (4) procedures for evaluating grant applications; and | ||
| (5) procedures for monitoring the use of a grant | ||
| awarded under the program and ensuring compliance with any | ||
| conditions of a grant. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1 of each year, the criminal | ||
| justice division shall submit to the Legislative Budget Board a | ||
| report that provides the following information for the preceding | ||
| state fiscal year: | ||
| (1) the name of each law enforcement agency that | ||
| applied for a grant under this section; and | ||
| (2) the amount of money distributed to each law | ||
| enforcement agency that received a grant under this section. | ||
| (e) The criminal justice division may use any revenue | ||
| available for purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect February 1, 2022. | ||
