Bill Text: TX SB1362 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to hiring and licensing certain individuals lawfully present in the United States as peace officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1362 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1362-Introduced.html
88R10921 DRS-D | ||
By: Alvarado | S.B. No. 1362 |
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relating to hiring and licensing certain individuals lawfully | ||
present in the United States as peace officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 370, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 370. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO [ |
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GOVERNMENT | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 370, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 370.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 370.007. COMMISSIONING AND EMPLOYING AS PEACE OFFICERS | ||
CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS LAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES. | ||
Notwithstanding any other law, a political subdivision that | ||
commissions and employs peace officers may commission and employ as | ||
a peace officer an individual who is lawfully present in the United | ||
States as the result of receiving deferred action from the United | ||
States Department of Homeland Security and who has obtained | ||
employment authorization from the United States Citizenship and | ||
Immigration Services. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter G, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1701.3095 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1701.3095. LICENSING OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS LAWFULLY | ||
PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES. The commission shall issue a peace | ||
officer license to a person who: | ||
(1) meets the requirements of this chapter and the | ||
commission's rules; | ||
(2) is lawfully present in the United States as the | ||
result of receiving deferred action from the United States | ||
Department of Homeland Security; and | ||
(3) has obtained employment authorization from the | ||
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. | ||
SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall adopt or | ||
amend rules as necessary to comply with Section 1701.3095, | ||
Occupations Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |