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	1	+	87R8636 JCG-D
1	2		By: Creighton S.B. No. 932
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2021; March 11, 2021, read
3		-	first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs & Border
4		-	Security; April 29, 2021, reported favorably by the following
5		-	vote: Yeas 4, Nays 2; April 29, 2021, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	6		AN ACT
11	7		relating to a border operations training program for peace officers
12	8		employed by local law enforcement agencies.
13	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	10		SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
15	11		amended by adding Section 411.02096 to read as follows:
16	12		Sec. 411.02096. BORDER OPERATIONS TRAINING PROGRAM. (a)
17	13		The department, in coordination with local law enforcement
18	14		agencies, shall establish and administer a border operations
19	15		training program for peace officers employed by local law
20	16		enforcement agencies that will prepare the officers to:
21	17		(1) collaborate and cooperate with and assist any law
22	18		enforcement agency in the interdiction, investigation, and
23	19		prosecution of criminal activity in the Texas-Mexico border region;
24	20		and
25	21		(2) collaborate and cooperate with and assist district
26	22		attorneys, county attorneys, the border prosecution unit, and other
27	23		prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of allegations of
28	24		criminal activity in the Texas-Mexico border region.
29	25		(b) The training program under Subsection (a) must include:
30	26		(1) information on:
31	27		(A) criminal activity occurring along the
32	28		Texas-Mexico border, including drug trafficking and trafficking of
33	29		persons and other activity carried out by cartels, transnational
34	30		gangs, and other groups engaged in organized criminal activity; and
35	31		(B) methods for identifying northbound,
36	32		southbound, and intrastate criminal activity associated with drug
37	33		trafficking, trafficking of persons, and other organized criminal
38	34		activity;
39	35		(2) best practices for investigating and prosecuting
40	36		the criminal activity described by Subdivision (1) and securing the
41	37		Texas-Mexico border; and
42	38		(3) an overview of the department's operations at the
43	39		Texas-Mexico border, including any collaboration with the United
44	40		States Customs and Border Protection.
45	41		(c) The department shall identify opportunities for a peace
46	42		officer described by Subsection (a) to assist in the department's
47	43		duties related to border operations. The department may authorize
48	44		the officer to assist in carrying out those duties.
49	45		(d) A peace officer authorized by the department to assist
50	46		in carrying out duties related to the department's border
51	47		operations as described by Subsection (c) is not entitled to
52	48		compensation from the department for the assistance provided.
53	49		(e) The department may partner with federal agencies in
54	50		administering the training program under Subsection (a) and
55	51		facilitating any assistance provided by a peace officer under
56	52		Subsection (c).
57	53		SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is
58	54		amended by adding Section 1701.359 to read as follows:
59	55		Sec. 1701.359. BORDER OPERATIONS TRAINING PROGRAM. The
60	56		commission may:
61	57		(1) recognize, or with the consent of the Department
62	58		of Public Safety administer or assist in administering, the border
63	59		operations training program established under Section 411.02096,
64	60		Government Code, as a continuing education program for officers;
65	61		and
66	62		(2) credit an officer who successfully completes the
67	63		program described by Subdivision (1) with the appropriate number of
68	64		continuing education hours.
69	65		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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