Bill Text: TX HB2820 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to establishing the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial Ceremony Committee to recognize and honor peace officers who were killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2820 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2820-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Pickett | H.B. No. 2820 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2820: | |||
By: King of Parker | C.S.H.B. No. 2820 |
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relating to establishing the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial | ||
Ceremony Committee to recognize and honor peace officers who were | ||
killed in the line of duty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 3105, Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 3105. TEXAS PEACE OFFICERS' MEMORIAL MONUMENT AND CEREMONY | ||
SECTION 2. Section 3105.002, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows: | ||
(2-a) "Committee" means the Texas Peace Officers' | ||
Memorial Ceremony Committee. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 3105.005(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) Money in the account may be used only for the purposes | ||
prescribed by Section 3105.004 [ |
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SECTION 4. Chapter 3105, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Sections 3105.006 and 3105.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 3105.006. TEXAS PEACE OFFICERS' MEMORIAL CEREMONY | ||
COMMITTEE. (a) The committee is established to plan, oversee, and | ||
facilitate annual ceremonies recognizing and honoring peace | ||
officers of this state who were killed in the line of duty. | ||
(b) The committee consists of the following members: | ||
(1) a president, or the president's designee, of any | ||
law enforcement organization that: | ||
(A) provides full service legal and political | ||
representation to law enforcement officers of this state; | ||
(B) has at least 10,000 members paying dues, as | ||
provided by the organization's Internal Revenue Service Form 990 | ||
for the previous reporting period; | ||
(C) has complied with all filing requirements of | ||
the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Department of | ||
Labor, and the secretary of state; and | ||
(D) has an elected board of directors; | ||
(2) a surviving spouse of a peace officer killed in the | ||
line of duty selected by the chapters of the Concerns of Police | ||
Survivors of this state; and | ||
(3) the following nonvoting members or designees of | ||
the members: | ||
(A) the governor; | ||
(B) the lieutenant governor; | ||
(C) the speaker of the house of representatives; | ||
(D) the attorney general; | ||
(E) the director of the Department of Public | ||
Safety; | ||
(F) the executive director of the board; and | ||
(G) the executive director of the commission. | ||
Sec. 3105.007. TEXAS PEACE OFFICERS' MEMORIAL CEREMONY. | ||
(a) The committee shall meet as necessary to plan and coordinate an | ||
annual memorial ceremony on the Capitol grounds to honor Texas | ||
peace officers who were killed in the line of duty. | ||
(b) The committee shall hold the ceremony on a date selected | ||
by the committee during the week in which May 8 occurs. | ||
(c) The ceremony may be funded by public or private money. | ||
(d) Each odd-numbered year, the ceremony must include: | ||
(1) a parade of law enforcement color guards and | ||
personnel ending at the Capitol; and | ||
(2) a ceremony held during a joint session of the | ||
legislature on the floor of the house of representatives, if | ||
possible. | ||
(e) During the ceremony under this section, the name of each | ||
peace officer who is being added to the monument that year must be | ||
read and the surviving family members of the peace officer must be | ||
recognized. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |