Bill Text: TX SB12 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist law enforcement agencies with the purchase of bulletproof vests and body armor.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 46-17)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective immediately [SB12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB12-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist law enforcement agencies with the purchase of bulletproof vests and body armor.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 46-17)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective immediately [SB12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB12-Introduced.html
85R6279 ADM-D | ||
By: West | S.B. No. 12 |
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relating to the creation of a grant program to assist law | ||
enforcement agencies with the purchase of bulletproof vests. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 772, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 772.0073 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 772.0073. BULLETPROOF VEST 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 seeking to equip its peace officers with | ||
bulletproof vests. Any law enforcement agency in this state may | ||
apply for a grant under this section. | ||
(c) An agency receiving a grant under this section must, as | ||
soon as practicable after receiving the grant, provide to the | ||
criminal justice division proof of purchase of bulletproof vests, | ||
including the price of each vest and the number of vests purchased. | ||
(d) Not later than December 1 of each year, the criminal | ||
justice division shall submit a report to the Legislative Budget | ||
Board reporting the following information for the preceding state | ||
fiscal year: | ||
(1) the name of each agency that applied for a grant | ||
under this section; | ||
(2) the amount of money distributed to each agency | ||
that received a grant under this section; and | ||
(3) the number of vests purchased by each agency | ||
described by Subdivision (2). | ||
(e) The criminal justice division may use any revenue | ||
available for purposes of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |