Bill Text: TX HB2566 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the number of peace officers required to be employed by a sheriff's department in certain counties.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2566-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Allison, Cortez, Lujan, Bernal, | H.B. No. 2566 | ||
| Lopez of Bexar, et al. | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2566: | |||
| By: Schatzline | C.S.H.B. No. 2566 | ||
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| relating to the number of peace officers required to be employed by | ||
| a sheriff's department in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 351, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 351.905 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 351.905. MINIMUM NUMBER OF SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT PEACE | ||
| OFFICERS. (a) In this section, "peace officer" means an officer | ||
| whose duties include patrolling an assigned area, conducting | ||
| traffic stops, responding to calls, and carrying out general | ||
| investigative and law enforcement duties. The term does not | ||
| include an officer whose duties include the safekeeping of | ||
| prisoners or the security of a jail operated by the county, or | ||
| serving as a bailiff at a county courthouse. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a county with a population | ||
| of more than 1.5 million in which more than 70 percent of the | ||
| population lives in a single municipality. | ||
| (c) The sheriff of a county shall employ and retain at all | ||
| times at least 1.8 peace officers for every 1,000 residents of the | ||
| total unincorporated area of the county, as determined by the state | ||
| demographer in accordance with Section 468.004, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 468.004, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 468.004. POWERS AND DUTIES. The state demographer | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) disseminate demographic and related socioeconomic | ||
| data to the public, with emphasis on data that may be useful to | ||
| public policymakers; | ||
| (2) provide annual population estimates for all | ||
| counties and municipalities in the state, including an estimate for | ||
| the total unincorporated area of the county; | ||
| (3) provide biennial population projections for the | ||
| state and all counties of the state; | ||
| (4) adhere to current standards of practice when | ||
| determining which racial/ethnic groups to include in estimates and | ||
| projections; | ||
| (5) provide information by request which justifies the | ||
| omission of any particular racial/ethnic group from estimates and | ||
| projections, including limitations of data and methodology; | ||
| (6) provide information to the legislature relating to | ||
| the impact that demographic and socioeconomic changes in the | ||
| population of the state have on the demand for state services; and | ||
| (7) evaluate the type and quality of data needed to: | ||
| (A) adequately monitor demographic and | ||
| socioeconomic changes in the population of the state; and | ||
| (B) assess the effectiveness of delivery of state | ||
| services. | ||
| SECTION 3. The sheriff of a county to which Section 351.905, | ||
| Local Government Code, as added by this Act, applies shall comply | ||
| with the requirement of that section as soon as practicable but not | ||
| later than September 1, 2028. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
