Bill Text: TX HB2773 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the dismissal of the department head of a police department in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB2773 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2773-Introduced.html
| 87R2736 MP-F | ||
| By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 2773 | |
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| relating to the dismissal of the department head of a police | ||
| department in certain municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 143, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 143.0131 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 143.0131. DISMISSAL OF DEPARTMENT HEAD OF CERTAIN | ||
| POLICE DEPARTMENTS. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
| municipality that has a population of more than 950,000. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality's chief | ||
| executive may dismiss the head of the police department from the | ||
| department for any or no reason. | ||
| (c) A head of a police department dismissed under this | ||
| section is not entitled to: | ||
| (1) reinstatement or rights of seniority under Section | ||
| 143.013(c); or | ||
| (2) a hearing under Section 143.013(d). | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a dismissal made on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
| dismissal made before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
| the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this | ||
| Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
