Bill Text: TX HB85 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 85 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a grant program to provide grants to law enforcement agencies to equip certain motor vehicles with bullet-resistant windshields.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-20 - Filed [HB85 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB85-Introduced.html

	87S30095 MTB-D

	By: White	H.B. No. 85



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a grant program to provide grants to law enforcement
	agencies to equip certain motor vehicles with bullet-resistant
	windshields.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 772, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 772.0079 to read as follows:
	Sec. 772.0079. BULLET-RESISTANT WINDSHIELD GRANT PROGRAM.
	(a) In this section, "criminal justice division" means the
	criminal justice division established under Section 772.006.
	(b) The criminal justice division shall establish and
	administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to a law
	enforcement agency in this state, other than the Department of
	Public Safety, for the purpose of equipping all motor vehicles used
	by officers of the agency in discharging the officers' official
	duties with bullet-resistant windshields.
	(c) The criminal justice division shall establish:
	(1) eligibility criteria for grant applicants;
	(2) grant application procedures;
	(3) guidelines relating to grant amounts;
	(4) procedures for evaluating grant applications; and
	(5) procedures for monitoring the use of a grant
	awarded under the program and ensuring compliance with any
	conditions of a grant.
	(d) Not later than December 1 of each year, the criminal
	justice division shall submit to the Legislative Budget Board a
	report that provides the following information for the preceding
	state fiscal year:
	(1) the name of each law enforcement agency that
	applied for a grant under this section; and
	(2) the amount of money distributed to each law
	enforcement agency that received a grant under this section.
	(e) The criminal justice division may use any revenue
	available for purposes of this section.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect February 1, 2022.