| 1 | 1 | | 81R31566 E |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Merritt H.B. No. 3334 |
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| 3 | 3 | | Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3334: |
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| 4 | 4 | | By: Merritt C.S.H.B. No. 3334 |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to the cost of replacing a law enforcement officer during |
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| 10 | 10 | | training on enforcement of immigration laws. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Section 772.006(a), Government Code, is amended |
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| 13 | 13 | | to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (a) The governor shall establish a criminal justice |
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| 15 | 15 | | division in the governor's office to: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) advise and assist the governor in developing |
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| 17 | 17 | | policies, plans, programs, and proposed legislation for improving |
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| 18 | 18 | | the coordination, administration, and effectiveness of the |
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| 19 | 19 | | criminal justice system; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) administer the criminal justice planning fund; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (3) prepare a state comprehensive criminal justice |
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| 22 | 22 | | plan, to update the plan annually based on an analysis of the |
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| 23 | 23 | | state's criminal justice problems and needs, and to encourage |
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| 24 | 24 | | identical or substantially similar local and regional |
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| 25 | 25 | | comprehensive criminal justice planning efforts; |
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| 26 | 26 | | (4) establish goals, priorities, and standards for |
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| 27 | 27 | | programs and projects to improve the administration of justice and |
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| 28 | 28 | | the efficiency of law enforcement, the judicial system, |
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| 29 | 29 | | prosecution, criminal defense, and adult and juvenile corrections |
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| 30 | 30 | | and rehabilitation; |
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| 31 | 31 | | (5) award grants to state agencies, units of local |
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| 32 | 32 | | government, school districts, and private, nonprofit corporations |
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| 33 | 33 | | from the criminal justice planning fund for programs and projects |
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| 34 | 34 | | on consideration of the goals, priorities, and standards |
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| 35 | 35 | | recommended by the Criminal Justice Policy Council; |
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| 36 | 36 | | (6) apply for, obtain, and allocate for the purposes |
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| 37 | 37 | | of this section any federal or other funds which may be made |
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| 38 | 38 | | available for programs and projects that address the goals, |
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| 39 | 39 | | priorities, and standards established in local and regional |
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| 40 | 40 | | comprehensive criminal justice planning efforts or assist those |
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| 41 | 41 | | efforts; |
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| 42 | 42 | | (7) administer the funds provided by this section in |
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| 43 | 43 | | such a manner as to ensure that grants received under this section |
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| 44 | 44 | | do not supplant state or local funds; |
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| 45 | 45 | | (8) monitor and evaluate programs and projects funded |
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| 46 | 46 | | under this section, cooperate with and render technical assistance |
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| 47 | 47 | | to state agencies and local governments seeking to reduce crime or |
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| 48 | 48 | | enhance the performance and operation of the criminal justice |
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| 49 | 49 | | system, and collect from any state or local government entity |
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| 50 | 50 | | information, data, statistics, or other material necessary to carry |
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| 51 | 51 | | out the purposes of this section; |
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| 52 | 52 | | (9) submit a biennial report to the legislature |
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| 53 | 53 | | reporting the division's activities during the preceding biennium |
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| 54 | 54 | | including the comprehensive state criminal justice plans and other |
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| 55 | 55 | | studies, evaluations, crime data analyses, reports, or proposed |
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| 56 | 56 | | legislation that the governor determines appropriate or the |
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| 57 | 57 | | legislature requests; [and] |
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| 58 | 58 | | (10) pay, on application by a unit of local |
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| 59 | 59 | | government, the cost incurred to replace a law enforcement officer |
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| 60 | 60 | | during the period that the law enforcement officer is receiving |
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| 61 | 61 | | training by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, |
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| 62 | 62 | | or its successor agency, on the enforcement of federal immigration |
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| 63 | 63 | | law, provided that the unit of local government has signed a |
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| 64 | 64 | | memorandum of understanding limiting enforcement to 8 U.S.C. |
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| 65 | 65 | | Section 1252c; and |
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| 66 | 66 | | (11) perform other duties as necessary to carry out |
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| 67 | 67 | | the duties listed in this subsection and adopt rules and procedures |
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| 68 | 68 | | as necessary. |
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| 69 | 69 | | SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section |
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| 70 | 70 | | 772.006(a), Government Code, apply only to training that occurs on |
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| 71 | 71 | | or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 72 | 72 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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