Bill Text: TX HB638 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain political subdivisions to adopt a budget that reduces the amount allocated to provide a fire protection, law enforcement, or emergency medical service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to State Affairs [HB638 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB638-Introduced.html
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By: Krause | H.B. No. 638 |
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relating to the authority of certain political subdivisions to | ||
adopt a budget that reduces the amount allocated to provide a fire | ||
protection, law enforcement, or emergency medical service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 140.0046 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 140.0046. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN POLITICAL | ||
SUBDIVISIONS TO REDUCE BUDGET FOR PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES. (a) In | ||
this section, "public safety service" means a fire protection, law | ||
enforcement, or emergency medical service. | ||
(b) This section does not apply to a school district. | ||
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a political | ||
subdivision may not adopt a budget unless the political subdivision | ||
allocates money in that budget to provide for each public safety | ||
service in an amount equal to or greater than the amount allocated | ||
to provide for that service in the preceding fiscal year. | ||
(d) A political subdivision may adopt a budget that does not | ||
meet the requirements of Subsection (c) that relate to a public | ||
safety service if the political subdivision will not provide that | ||
service in the fiscal year for which the budget is adopted. | ||
(e) For purposes of this section, the amount allocated in a | ||
budget to provide a service includes all maintenance, operations, | ||
and debt service costs associated with providing the service. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to the adoption of a budget by a political subdivision for a fiscal | ||
year that begins on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |