Bill Text: TX SB12 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
| By: West, et al. | S.B. No. 12 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2017; January 24, 2017, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
| March 7, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 7, 2017, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 12 | By: Huffman | |
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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 in this state that seeks to equip its peace | ||
| officers with bulletproof vests. | ||
| (c) A bulletproof vest purchased with a grant received under | ||
| this section must be classified by the National Institute of | ||
| Justice: | ||
| (1) at the Level III or Level IV body armor standard; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) using an equivalent classification that denotes | ||
| the vest is capable of stopping rifle ammunition. | ||
| (d) A law enforcement agency may apply for a grant under | ||
| this section only if the agency first adopts a policy addressing the | ||
| deployment and allocation of vests to its officers. | ||
| (e) A law enforcement 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. | ||
| (f) 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; | ||
| (2) the amount of money distributed to each law | ||
| enforcement agency that received a grant under this section; and | ||
| (3) the number of vests purchased by each agency | ||
| described by Subdivision (2). | ||
| (g) 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. | ||
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