| 1 | 1 | | 88S30402 KBB-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Bailes H.B. No. 101 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the rural constable's office salary assistance grant |
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| 8 | 8 | | program. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Sections 130.912(d) and (e), Local Government |
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| 11 | 11 | | Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (d) The comptroller shall award a grant to a qualified |
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| 13 | 13 | | county that applies for the grant using money appropriated to the |
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| 14 | 14 | | comptroller for that purpose. [The comptroller may only award a |
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| 15 | 15 | | grant to a county if the county agrees in writing to contribute at |
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| 16 | 16 | | least 75 percent of the money required to meet the minimum annual |
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| 17 | 17 | | salary requirement established under Subsection (e) for each |
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| 18 | 18 | | qualified constable for which the county will also use grant money |
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| 19 | 19 | | to provide that salary.] |
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| 20 | 20 | | (e) A [Subject to Subsection (d), a] county that is awarded |
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| 21 | 21 | | a grant shall use or authorize the use of the grant money only: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) to provide a minimum annual salary of $45,000 to a |
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| 23 | 23 | | qualified constable; |
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| 24 | 24 | | (2) to hire additional constable deputies; or |
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| 25 | 25 | | (3) to increase the salary for a constable deputy. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 27 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the |
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| 31 | 31 | | legislative session. |
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