By: Clardy (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 1545
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017;
April 24, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Criminal Justice; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the acceptance of certain high school courses to
satisfy part of the training required to obtain a peace officer
license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 1701.1525 to read as follows:
Sec. 1701.1525. RULES RELATED TO ACCEPTANCE OF CREDIT HOURS
FOR COMPLETION OF CERTAIN HIGH SCHOOL COURSES. (a) The commission
shall adopt rules that establish a procedure under which credit
hours earned for the successful completion of high school courses
that directly relate to law enforcement can be counted toward the
hours of training required of an applicant for a peace officer
license issued under Section 1701.307.
(b) The rules adopted under this section must require that
an applicant submit to the commission a high school transcript that
indicates the applicant earned an endorsement in the public
services category, as described by Section 28.025(c-1), Education
Code.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2017, the Texas
Commission on Law Enforcement shall adopt rules as necessary to
comply with Section 1701.1525, Occupations Code, as added by this
Act.
(b) Section 1701.1525, Occupations Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to an application for a license submitted to the
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement on or after the effective date
of this Act. An application submitted before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
application was submitted, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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