81R12431 SLB-D
By: Merritt H.B. No. 3334
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the cost of replacing a law enforcement officer during
training on enforcement of immigration laws.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 772.006(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The governor shall establish a criminal justice
division in the governor's office to:
(1) advise and assist the governor in developing
policies, plans, programs, and proposed legislation for improving
the coordination, administration, and effectiveness of the
criminal justice system;
(2) administer the criminal justice planning fund;
(3) prepare a state comprehensive criminal justice
plan, to update the plan annually based on an analysis of the
state's criminal justice problems and needs, and to encourage
identical or substantially similar local and regional
comprehensive criminal justice planning efforts;
(4) establish goals, priorities, and standards for
programs and projects to improve the administration of justice and
the efficiency of law enforcement, the judicial system,
prosecution, criminal defense, and adult and juvenile corrections
and rehabilitation;
(5) award grants to state agencies, units of local
government, school districts, and private, nonprofit corporations
from the criminal justice planning fund for programs and projects
on consideration of the goals, priorities, and standards
recommended by the Criminal Justice Policy Council;
(6) apply for, obtain, and allocate for the purposes
of this section any federal or other funds which may be made
available for programs and projects that address the goals,
priorities, and standards established in local and regional
comprehensive criminal justice planning efforts or assist those
efforts;
(7) administer the funds provided by this section in
such a manner as to ensure that grants received under this section
do not supplant state or local funds;
(8) monitor and evaluate programs and projects funded
under this section, cooperate with and render technical assistance
to state agencies and local governments seeking to reduce crime or
enhance the performance and operation of the criminal justice
system, and collect from any state or local government entity
information, data, statistics, or other material necessary to carry
out the purposes of this section;
(9) submit a biennial report to the legislature
reporting the division's activities during the preceding biennium
including the comprehensive state criminal justice plans and other
studies, evaluations, crime data analyses, reports, or proposed
legislation that the governor determines appropriate or the
legislature requests; [and]
(10) pay, on application by a unit of local
government, the cost incurred to replace a law enforcement officer
during the period that the law enforcement officer is receiving
training by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency,
or its successor agency, on the enforcement of federal immigration
law; and
(11) perform other duties as necessary to carry out
the duties listed in this subsection and adopt rules and procedures
as necessary.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
772.006(a), Government Code, apply only to training that occurs on
or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.