87R5690 JTS-D
By: Minjarez H.B. No. 1350
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the publication of certain information regarding
certain disciplinary appeals filed by police officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 411.056 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.056. REPORTING ON POLICE OFFICER DISCIPLINARY
APPEAL HEARINGS. The department shall publish on the department's
Internet website the information reported to the department under
Section 180.008, Local Government Code.
SECTION 2. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 180.008 to read as follows:
Sec. 180.008. ARBITRATOR REPORTING REGARDING CERTAIN
DISCIPLINARY APPEAL HEARINGS FOR POLICE OFFICERS. An arbitrator
selected to hear an appeal of the disciplinary suspension or
dismissal of a municipal police officer, deputy sheriff, deputy
constable, or other police officer, including an appeal under
Section 143.057 or 143.1016 or under a collective bargaining, meet
and confer, or other similar agreement, shall report to the
Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas, for each hearing
arbitrated by the arbitrator:
(1) the ruling in the hearing;
(2) the date of the ruling;
(3) sources of the arbitrator's payment; and
(4) amounts paid to the police officer as a result of
the ruling in the hearing.
SECTION 3. Section 180.008, Local Government Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to a disciplinary appeal that is initiated
on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.