Bill Text: TX SB1237 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1237

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Bill Title: Relating to compensation and leave for certain security officers or investigators commissioned as peace officers by the comptroller.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1237 Detail]

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	2023S0213-1 02/24/23

	By: Flores	S.B. No. 1237


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to compensation and leave for certain security officers or
	investigators commissioned as peace officers by the comptroller.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 403.0306 to read as follows:
	Sec. 403.0306. COMMISSIONED PEACE OFFICERS. The
	comptroller shall ensure that a security officer or investigator
	commissioned as a peace officer by the comptroller is compensated
	according to Schedule C of the position classification salary
	schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations Act.
	SECTION 2. Section 661.918(a), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a) This section applies to a peace officer under Article
	2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, who is commissioned as a law
	enforcement officer or agent, including a ranger, by:
	(1) the Public Safety Commission and the director of
	the Department of Public Safety;
	(2) the Parks and Wildlife Commission;
	(3) the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;
	(4) the attorney general; [or]
	(5) the insurance fraud unit of the Texas Department
	of Insurance; or
	(6) the comptroller.
	SECTION 3. (a) The classification officer in the office of
	the state auditor shall classify the position of security officer
	or investigator commissioned as a peace officer by the comptroller
	as a Schedule C position under the Texas Position Classification
	Plan.
	(b) The change made by the classification officer as
	required by this section applies beginning with the state fiscal
	biennium beginning September 1, 2023.
	(c) This section expires September 1, 2025.
	SECTION 4. Section 661.918(a), Government Code, as amended
	by this Act, applies only to an injury that occurs on or after the
	effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.