By: VanDeaver (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 315
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2021;
April 12, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Criminal Justice; May 6, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
May 6, 2021, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 315 By: Whitmire
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the purchasing of the uniform of certain honorably
retired or medically discharged peace officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 614,
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER D. PURCHASE OF FIREARM OR UNIFORM OF HONORABLY RETIRED,
MEDICALLY DISCHARGED, OR DECEASED PEACE OFFICER
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 614, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 614.055 to read as follows:
Sec. 614.055. PURCHASE OF UNIFORM ISSUED TO HONORABLY
RETIRED AND CERTAIN MEDICALLY DISCHARGED STATE PEACE OFFICERS. (a)
An individual may purchase a uniform from a state agency if:
(1) the individual was a peace officer commissioned by
the agency;
(2) the individual was honorably retired or medically
discharged under conditions other than dishonorable from the
individual's commission by the agency; and
(3) the uniform had been previously issued to the
individual by the agency.
(b) The nearest surviving relative of an individual
described by Subsection (a) may purchase the individual's uniform
from the state agency.
(c) A state agency shall establish the amount, which may not
exceed fair market value, for which a uniform may be purchased under
this section.
(d) An individual who purchases a uniform or on whose behalf
a uniform is purchased under this section may be buried in the
uniform.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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