Bill Text: TX HB239 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-12 - Filed [HB239 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB239-Introduced.html
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| By: White | H.B. No. 239 | |
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| relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance | ||
| payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain | ||
| counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 152, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Sections 152.0715 and 152.0716 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 152.0715. STATEWIDE MINIMUM SALARY OF SHERIFFS. | ||
| Notwithstanding any other law, the commissioners court of a county | ||
| shall provide for each fiscal year a salary of at least $65,000 for | ||
| the county's sheriff. | ||
| Sec. 152.0716. STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAY SALARIES | ||
| OF SHERIFFS OF CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to | ||
| a county with a population of less than 50,001. | ||
| (b) To serve the state purpose of ensuring professional law | ||
| enforcement throughout the state, a county is entitled to a state | ||
| assistance payment from the state for each county fiscal year to | ||
| assist the county in paying the sheriff's salary required by | ||
| Section 152.0715 as follows: | ||
| (1) if a county has a population of 25,000 or less, the | ||
| county is entitled to a payment of $20,000; and | ||
| (2) if a county has a population of more than 25,000 | ||
| and less than 50,001, the county is entitled to a payment of $5,000. | ||
| (c) Not later than the 30th day after the first day of a | ||
| county's fiscal year, the county must submit an application to the | ||
| comptroller to receive the payment. | ||
| (d) The comptroller shall remit the applicable state | ||
| assistance payment to which a county is entitled from available | ||
| state funds not later than the 30th day after the date the | ||
| comptroller receives the county's application for the payment. | ||
| (e) The comptroller shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a county fiscal year that begins on or after January 1, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2022, the comptroller | ||
| of public accounts shall adopt rules as required by Section | ||
| 152.0716(e), Local Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
