Bill Text: TX HB1545 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1545 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of certain high school courses to satisfy part of the training required to obtain a peace officer license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1545 Detail]

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	85R7526 TSR-D

	By: Clardy	H.B. No. 1545



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the acceptance of certain high school courses to
	satisfy part of the training required to obtain a peace officer
	license.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is
	amended by adding Section 1701.1525 to read as follows:
	Sec. 1701.1525. RULES RELATED TO ACCEPTANCE OF CREDIT HOURS
	FOR COMPLETION OF CERTAIN HIGH SCHOOL COURSES. (a) The commission
	shall adopt rules that establish a procedure under which credit
	hours earned for the successful completion of high school courses
	that directly relate to law enforcement can be counted toward the
	hours of training required of an applicant for a peace officer
	license issued under Section 1701.307.
	(b) The rules adopted under this section must require that
	an applicant submit to the commission a high school transcript that
	indicates the applicant earned an endorsement in the public
	services category, as described by Section 28.025(c-1), Education
	Code.
	SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2017, the Texas
	Commission on Law Enforcement shall adopt rules as necessary to
	comply with Section 1701.1525, Occupations Code, as added by this
	Act.
	(b) Section 1701.1525, Occupations Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to an application for a license submitted to the
	Texas Commission on Law Enforcement on or after the effective date
	of this Act. An application submitted before the effective date of
	this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
	application was submitted, and the former law is continued in
	effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.