Bill Text: TX HB315 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the purchasing of the uniform of certain honorably retired or medically discharged peace officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB315 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB315-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 315 | ||
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| relating to the purchasing of the uniform of certain honorably | ||
| retired or medically discharged peace officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 614, | ||
| Government Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. PURCHASE OF FIREARM OR UNIFORM OF HONORABLY RETIRED, | ||
| MEDICALLY DISCHARGED, OR DECEASED PEACE OFFICER | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 614, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 614.055 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 614.055. PURCHASE OF UNIFORM ISSUED TO HONORABLY | ||
| RETIRED AND CERTAIN MEDICALLY DISCHARGED STATE PEACE OFFICERS. (a) | ||
| An individual may purchase a uniform from a state agency if: | ||
| (1) the individual was a peace officer commissioned by | ||
| the agency; | ||
| (2) the individual was honorably retired or medically | ||
| discharged under conditions other than dishonorable from the | ||
| individual's commission by the agency; and | ||
| (3) the uniform had been previously issued to the | ||
| individual by the agency. | ||
| (b) The nearest surviving relative of an individual | ||
| described by Subsection (a) may purchase the individual's uniform | ||
| from the state agency. | ||
| (c) A state agency shall establish the amount, which may not | ||
| exceed fair market value, for which a uniform may be purchased under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) An individual who purchases a uniform or on whose behalf | ||
| a uniform is purchased under this section may be buried in the | ||
| uniform. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 315 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 8, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 315 on May 20, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 315 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 17, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
