By: Holland, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 381
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019;
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Criminal Justice; May 9, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 9, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to eligibility for the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial
Monument.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 3105.003(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A person is eligible to have the person's name on the
monument if the person was killed in the line of duty and was:
(1) a law enforcement officer or peace officer for
this state or a political subdivision of this state under Article
2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or other law;
(2) a federal law enforcement officer or special agent
performing duties in this state, including those officers under
Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure; [or]
(3) a corrections or detention officer or county or
municipal jailer employed or appointed by a municipal, county, or
state penal institution in this state; or
(4) employed by this state or a political subdivision
of this state and considered by the person's employer to be a
trainee for a position described by Subdivision (1), (2), or (3).
SECTION 2. (a) Section 3105.003(a), Government Code, as
amended by this Act, applies to the eligibility of a person who was
killed in the line of duty before, on, or after the effective date
of this Act.
(b) The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall
reconsider a nomination to have a person's name added to the Texas
Peace Officers' Memorial Monument under Section 3105.0035,
Government Code, if the person was determined to be ineligible
before the effective date of this Act and the person may be eligible
under Section 3105.003(a), Government Code, as amended by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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