Bill Text: TX HB1350 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the publication of certain information regarding certain disciplinary appeals filed by police officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-05 - Referred to County Affairs [HB1350 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1350-Introduced.html
87R5690 JTS-D | ||
By: Minjarez | H.B. No. 1350 |
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relating to the publication of certain information regarding | ||
certain disciplinary appeals filed by police officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.056 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.056. REPORTING ON POLICE OFFICER DISCIPLINARY | ||
APPEAL HEARINGS. The department shall publish on the department's | ||
Internet website the information reported to the department under | ||
Section 180.008, Local Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 180.008 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 180.008. ARBITRATOR REPORTING REGARDING CERTAIN | ||
DISCIPLINARY APPEAL HEARINGS FOR POLICE OFFICERS. An arbitrator | ||
selected to hear an appeal of the disciplinary suspension or | ||
dismissal of a municipal police officer, deputy sheriff, deputy | ||
constable, or other police officer, including an appeal under | ||
Section 143.057 or 143.1016 or under a collective bargaining, meet | ||
and confer, or other similar agreement, shall report to the | ||
Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas, for each hearing | ||
arbitrated by the arbitrator: | ||
(1) the ruling in the hearing; | ||
(2) the date of the ruling; | ||
(3) sources of the arbitrator's payment; and | ||
(4) amounts paid to the police officer as a result of | ||
the ruling in the hearing. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 180.008, Local Government Code, as added | ||
by this Act, applies only to a disciplinary appeal that is initiated | ||
on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |