Bill Text: TX HB3410 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Health and Human Services Commission to employ peace officers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB3410 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3410-Introduced.html
| By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 3410 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission to employ peace officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 531.1022, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (a) to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.1022. PEACE OFFICERS. (a) The commission's | ||
| office of inspector general shall employ and commission not more | ||
| than five peace officers at any given time for the purpose of | ||
| assisting the office in carrying out the duties of the office | ||
| relating to the investigation of fraud, waste, and abuse in the | ||
| Medicaid program and may employ peace officers for the purpose of | ||
| the investigation of fraud in the S | ||
| upplemental Nutritional | ||
| Assistance Program administered by the commission. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
