By: Guillen, Muñoz, Jr. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 229
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015;
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Border
Security; May 18, 2015, reported favorably to Committee on Veteran
Affairs and Military Installations; May 21, 2015, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent
to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disposition of certain surplus motor vehicles and
other law enforcement equipment by the Texas Facilities Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 2175, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2175.308 to read as follows:
Sec. 2175.308. EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY OF DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC SAFETY. (a) Notwithstanding any conflicting provision
of this chapter, if the commission determines that this state's
efforts to secure this state's international border and combat
transnational crime will sufficiently benefit from the donation of
the surplus motor vehicles and other law enforcement equipment of
the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas to a municipal
or county law enforcement agency in an economically disadvantaged
area of this state, the commission may transfer the property to the
agency at a price or for other consideration agreed to by the
commission and the agency.
(b) A law enforcement agency that receives surplus property
under Subsection (a) may not sell the property before the second
anniversary of the date the property is received.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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