Bill Text: TX SB1210 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of identification cards to certain peace officers and honorably retired peace officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1210 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1210-Introduced.html

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82R8313 EES-F
By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1210

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of identification cards to certain peace
officers and honorably retired peace officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 614.121(1), Government Code, as added by
Chapter 938 (H.B. 3613), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2007, is amended to read as follows:
(1) "Peace [Full-time peace] officer" means a person
elected, employed, or appointed as a peace officer under Article
2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or other law[,] who holds a
license issued under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code[:
[(A) works as a peace officer on average at least
32 hours per week, exclusive of paid vacation; and
[(B) is compensated by this state or a political
subdivision of this state at least at the federal minimum wage and
is entitled to all employee benefits offered to a peace officer by
the state or political subdivision].
SECTION 2. Sections 614.122(a) and (c), Government Code, as
added by Chapter 938 (H.B. 3613), Acts of the 80th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2007, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The law enforcement agency or other governmental entity
that appoints or employs a peace officer shall issue an
identification card to its sworn [full-time or part-time] peace
officers.
(c) On the identification card, the law enforcement agency
or other governmental entity that issues the card shall print:
(1) "State of Texas" and the state seal; and
(2) "This identification card certifies that (insert
name of peace officer) is commissioned by (insert name of law
enforcement agency or other governmental entity that appoints or
employs the peace officer) as a sworn peace officer [(insert
"full-time peace officer" or "part-time peace officer")]."
SECTION 3. Sections 614.124(a) and (d), Government Code, as
added by Chapter 938 (H.B. 3613), Acts of the 80th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2007, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The law enforcement agency or other governmental entity
that was the last entity to appoint or employ an honorably retired
peace officer as a peace officer shall [may] issue an
identification card to its honorably retired peace officers.
(d) The head of a law enforcement agency or other
governmental entity that issued the identification card shall
recover the identification card on the date the identification card
expires, unless the identification card is issued without an
expiration date.
SECTION 4. Sections 614.125 and 614.127, Government Code,
as added by Chapter 938 (H.B. 3613), Acts of the 80th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2007, are amended to read as follows:
Sec. 614.125. EXPIRATION DATE. (a) An identification card
issued under this subchapter expires on a date specified by the law
enforcement agency or other governmental entity issuing the card.
(b) A law enforcement agency or other governmental entity
may issue under Section 614.124 an identification card without an
expiration date to an honorably retired peace officer.
Sec. 614.127. LOST OR STOLEN CARDS. If an identification
card issued under this subchapter is lost or stolen, the law
enforcement agency or other governmental entity issuing the card
may:
(1) require a peace officer[, reserve law enforcement
officer,] or honorably retired peace officer to submit an affidavit
executed by the peace officer[, reserve law enforcement officer,]
or honorably retired peace officer to the law enforcement agency or
other governmental entity issuing the card stating that the
identification card was lost or stolen; and
(2) issue a duplicate identification card to the peace
officer[, reserve law enforcement officer,] or honorably retired
peace officer.
SECTION 5. (a) The following provisions of the Government
Code are repealed:
(1) Sections 614.121(3) and (4), as added by Chapter
938 (H.B. 3613), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session,
2007; and
(2) Section 614.123, as added by Chapter 938 (H.B.
3613), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007.
(b) Subchapter H, Chapter 614, Government Code, as added by
Chapter 1187 (H.B. 638), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2007, is repealed.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.