Bill Text: TX HB124 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 124 (Prior Session Legislation)

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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-29 - Filed [HB124 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB124-Introduced.html



	By: White	H.B. No. 124



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.