By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2383
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2025; March 25, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 16, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 16, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the employment of certain peace officers of the
Department of Public Safety.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 411.007, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (h) and (i) to read as follows:
(h) Subsections (e), (e-1), and (f) do not apply to a
retired commissioned officer who is employed by the department as a
commissioned officer.
(i) For purposes of Subsection (h), a "retired commissioned
officer" means a retiree of the Employees Retirement System of
Texas whose last employment position held before retirement under
that system was as a commissioned officer of the department.
SECTION 2. Section 411.007, Government Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a person hired on or after the effective
date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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