Bill Text: TX HB124 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-29 - Filed [HB124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB124-Introduced.html
By: White | H.B. No. 124 |
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relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance | ||
payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain | ||
counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 152, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 152.0715 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 152.0715. STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAY SALARIES | ||
OF SHERIFFS OF CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to | ||
a county with a population of less than 50,001. | ||
(b) To serve the state purpose of ensuring professional law | ||
enforcement throughout the state, a county is entitled to a state | ||
assistance payment from the state for each county fiscal year to | ||
assist the county in paying the sheriff's salary as follows: | ||
(1) if a county has a population of 25,000 or less, the | ||
county is entitled to a payment of $20,000; and | ||
(2) if a county has a population of more than 25,000 | ||
and less than 50,001, the county is entitled to a payment of $5,000. | ||
(c) Not later than the 30th day after the first day of a | ||
county's fiscal year, the county must submit an application to the | ||
comptroller to receive the payment. | ||
(d) The comptroller shall remit the applicable state | ||
assistance payment to which a county is entitled from available | ||
state funds not later than the 30th day after the date the | ||
comptroller receives the county's application for the payment. | ||
(e) The comptroller shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a county fiscal year that begins on or after September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2023, the comptroller | ||
of public accounts shall adopt rules as required by Section | ||
152.0715(e), Local Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |