Bill Text: TX HB1444 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to qualifications of a sheriff or a candidate for sheriff.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-10 - Referred to Local Government [HB1444 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1444-Comm_Sub.html
87R5350 MP-D | ||
By: King of Parker, White, Morrison, | H.B. No. 1444 | |
Bell of Montgomery, et al. |
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relating to qualifications of a sheriff or a candidate for sheriff. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 85.0011, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 85.0011. QUALIFICATIONS FOR SHERIFF OR CANDIDATE FOR | ||
SHERIFF. (a) A person is not eligible to serve as sheriff unless | ||
the person: | ||
(1) has a high school diploma or a high school | ||
equivalency certificate; and | ||
(2) holds an active permanent peace officer | ||
license [ |
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(b) A person is not eligible to be a candidate for the office | ||
of sheriff unless the person holds an active permanent peace | ||
officer license under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1701.302(a), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Section 85.0011, Local Government | ||
Code, an [ |
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Texas Constitution or a statute or appointed to fill a vacancy in an | ||
elective office must obtain a license from the commission not later | ||
than the second anniversary of the date the officer takes office. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 85.0025, Local Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections | ||
85.0011 and 85.0025, Local Government Code, do not apply to a | ||
sheriff serving a term that began before the effective date of this | ||
Act. A sheriff serving a term that began before the effective date | ||
of this Act is governed for the remainder of that term by Sections | ||
85.0011 and 85.0025, Local Government Code, as those laws existed | ||
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the prior law | ||
is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |