| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 21, 2019, read |
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| 3 | | - | first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; |
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| 4 | | - | May 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, |
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| 5 | | - | Nays 0; May 1, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 9 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 7 | | relating to the authority of certain local governmental entities to |
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| 12 | 8 | | enter into an agreement to create a mutual aid law enforcement task |
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| 13 | 9 | | force. |
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| 14 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 362.002(b), Local Government Code, is |
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| 16 | 12 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 13 | | (b) A county, municipality, or joint airport may, by |
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| 18 | 14 | | resolution or order of its governing body, enter into an agreement |
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| 19 | 15 | | with a [neighboring] municipality, joint airport, or [contiguous] |
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| 20 | 16 | | county to form a mutual aid law enforcement task force to cooperate |
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| 21 | 17 | | in criminal investigations and law enforcement. Peace officers |
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| 22 | 18 | | employed by counties, municipalities, or joint airports covered by |
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| 23 | 19 | | the agreement have only the additional investigative authority |
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| 24 | 20 | | throughout the region as set forth in the agreement. The agreement |
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| 25 | 21 | | must provide for the compensation of peace officers involved in the |
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| 26 | 22 | | activities of the task force. |
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| 27 | 23 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 28 | 24 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 29 | 25 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 30 | 26 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 31 | 27 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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