Bill Text: TX HB3151 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to municipalities and counties that adopt budgets that reduce the funding or personnel allocated for law enforcement agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - Considered in Calendars [HB3151 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3151-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Leman, Goldman, Harris, Meyer, et al. | H.B. No. 3151 | |
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| relating to municipalities and counties that adopt budgets that | ||
| reduce the funding or personnel allocated for law enforcement | ||
| agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.013. DEFUNDING LOCAL GOVERNMENT. (a) A defunding | ||
| local government is a municipality or county: | ||
| (1) that adopts a budget for a fiscal year that, in | ||
| comparison to the local government's preceding fiscal year, | ||
| reduces: | ||
| (A) the appropriation to the local government's | ||
| law enforcement agency; | ||
| (B) the number of peace officers the local | ||
| government's law enforcement agency is authorized to employ; | ||
| (C) funding for peace officer overtime | ||
| compensation for the local government's law enforcement agency; or | ||
| (D) funding for the recruitment and training of | ||
| new peace officers to fill each vacant peace officer position in the | ||
| local government's law enforcement agency; and | ||
| (2) for which the criminal justice division of the | ||
| governor's office issues a written determination finding that the | ||
| local government has taken an action described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| (a-1) In making a determination of whether a local | ||
| government is a defunding local government according to the budget | ||
| adopted for the first fiscal year beginning on or after September 1, | ||
| 2021, the criminal justice division of the governor's office shall | ||
| compare the funding and personnel in that budget to the funding and | ||
| personnel in the budget of the preceding fiscal year or the second | ||
| preceding fiscal year, whichever is greater. This subsection | ||
| expires September 1, 2023. | ||
| (b) A local government is considered to be a defunding local | ||
| government until the criminal justice division of the governor's | ||
| office issues a written determination finding that the local | ||
| government has reversed the reductions, adjusted for inflation, | ||
| described in Subsection (a)(1). | ||
| (c) The criminal justice division of the governor's office | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) compute the inflation rate used to make | ||
| determinations under Subsection (b) each state fiscal year using a | ||
| price index that accurately reports changes in the purchasing power | ||
| of the dollar for local governments in this state; and | ||
| (2) publish the inflation rate in the Texas Register. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to the adoption of a budget by a municipality or county for a fiscal | ||
| year that begins on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
