Bill Text: TX HB137 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to grants of appropriated money to certain peace officer organizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-09 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB137-Introduced.html
| By: Stickland | H.B. No. 137 | |
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| relating to grants of appropriated money to certa | ||
| in peace officer | ||
| organizations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 614, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter L to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER L. GRANTS TO PEACE OFFICER ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| Sec. 614.211. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Appropriated money" means money appropriated by | ||
| the legislature through the General Appropriations Act or other | ||
| law. | ||
| (2) "Peace officer organization" means an | ||
| association, group, union, lodge, local, or other organization, | ||
| whether incorporated or unincorporated, in which peace officers | ||
| participate and that exists wholly or partly to deal with employers | ||
| concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages and rates of pay, | ||
| hours of employment, and conditions of work. | ||
| (3) "Political committee," "political contribution," | ||
| and "political expenditure" have the meanings assigned by Section | ||
| 251.001, Election Code. | ||
| (4) "State agency" means: | ||
| (A) a department, commission, board, office, or | ||
| other entity in the executive branch of state government; | ||
| (B) the supreme court, the court of criminal | ||
| appeals, another entity in the judicial branch of state government | ||
| with statewide authority, or a court of appeals; or | ||
| (C) a university system or an institution of | ||
| higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. | ||
| Sec. 614.212. RESTRICTIONS ON GRANT-MAKING. A state agency | ||
| may not use any money under the agency's control, including | ||
| appropriated money, to make a grant or other distribution to a peace | ||
| officer organization if: | ||
| (1) the organization or an employee of the | ||
| organization is required to register under Chapter 305; | ||
| (2) the organization employs a person for the purpose | ||
| of affecting the outcome of legislation, agency rules, ordinances, | ||
| or other governmental policies; | ||
| (3) the organization establishes a political | ||
| committee or assists a political committee in performing political | ||
| activities; or | ||
| (4) the organization makes a political contribution or | ||
| political expenditure. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 September 1, 2015. | ||
