Bill Text: TX HB2600 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the employment of peace officers who seek or receive mental health care.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-19 - Left pending in committee [HB2600 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2600-Engrossed.html
| By: Frazier, Garcia | H.B. No. 2600 | |
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| relating to the employment of peace officers who seek or receive | ||
| mental health care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter A-1, Chapter 614, | ||
| Government Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER A-1. PROVISIONS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH [ |
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| SECTION 2. Subchapter A-1, Chapter 614, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 614.014 and 614.016 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 614.014. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "law | ||
| enforcement agency" means an agency of this state or an agency of a | ||
| political subdivision of this state authorized by law to employ | ||
| peace officers. | ||
| Sec. 614.016. TERMINATION FOR SEEKING MENTAL HEALTH CARE | ||
| PROHIBITED. A law enforcement agency may not terminate the | ||
| employment of a peace officer solely because the peace officer has | ||
| sought or received mental health care. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 614.015(a), Government Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 614.016, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies to mental health care regardless of whether the | ||
| care was sought or received by a peace officer before, on, or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
