S.B. No. 965
AN ACT
relating to the correction of employment termination reports for
law enforcement officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 1701.4525, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1701.4525. PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF REPORT;
HEARING[; ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY].
SECTION 2. Subsection (e), Section 1701.4525, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(e) In a proceeding to contest information in an employment
termination report for a report based on alleged misconduct, an
administrative law judge shall determine if the alleged misconduct
occurred by a preponderance of the evidence regardless of whether
the person who is the subject of the report was terminated or the
person resigned, retired, or separated in lieu of termination. If
the alleged misconduct is not supported by a preponderance of the
evidence, the administrative law judge shall order the commission
to change the report [to be changed]. The commission shall send the
changed report to the law enforcement agency that prepared the
original employment termination report. The law enforcement agency
shall replace the original employment termination report with the
changed report.
SECTION 3. Subsection (e-1), Section 1701.4525,
Occupations Code, is repealed.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1701.4525, Occupations Code, apply only to a petition for a
correction of an employment termination report submitted on or
after the effective date of this Act. A petition submitted before
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
the date the petition was submitted, and the former law is continued
in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 965 passed the Senate on
April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 8, 2013, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 965 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor