Bill Text: TX HB2217 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to establishing a grant program to equip motor vehicles used by peace officers with certain bullet-resistant components.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Filed [HB2217 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2217-Introduced.html
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| By: Wharton | H.B. No. 2217 | |
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| relating to establishing a grant program to equip motor vehicles | ||
| used by peace officers with certain bullet-resistant components. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 772, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 772.013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 772.013. GRANT PROGRAM TO EQUIP VEHICLES USED BY PEACE | ||
| OFFICERS WITH BULLET-RESISTANT COMPONENTS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Criminal justice division" means the criminal | ||
| justice division established under Section 772.006. | ||
| (2) "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the | ||
| state or an agency of a political subdivision of the state that is | ||
| authorized by law to employ peace officers. | ||
| (3) "Peace officer" means an individual elected, | ||
| appointed, or employed to serve as a peace officer for a | ||
| governmental entity under Article 2A.001, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, or other law. | ||
| (b) The criminal justice division shall establish and | ||
| administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to a law | ||
| enforcement agency to purchase and install motor vehicles used by | ||
| peace officers of the law enforcement agency in discharging the | ||
| officers' official duties with bullet-resistant windshields, side | ||
| windows, rear windows, and door panels. | ||
| (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) A law enforcement agency receiving a grant under this | ||
| section must, as soon as practicable after spending the grant | ||
| money, provide to the criminal justice division proof of purchase | ||
| and installation, as applicable, of bullet-resistant windshields, | ||
| side windows, rear windows, or door panels. | ||
| (e) The criminal justice division may use any available | ||
| money to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
