Bill Text: TX SB148 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Finance [SB148 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB148-Introduced.html
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| By: Springer | S.B. No. 148 | |
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| relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance | ||
| payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain | ||
| counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 152, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Sections 152.0715 and 152.0716 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 152.0715. STATEWIDE MINIMUM SALARY OF SHERIFFS. | ||
| Notwithstanding any other law, the commissioners court of a county | ||
| shall provide for each fiscal year a salary of at least $75,000 for | ||
| the county's sheriff. | ||
| Sec. 152.0716. STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAY SALARIES | ||
| OF SHERIFFS OF CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to | ||
| a county with a population of 50,000 or less. | ||
| (b) To serve the state purpose of ensuring professional law | ||
| enforcement throughout the state, a county is entitled to an | ||
| assistance payment from the state for each county fiscal year to | ||
| assist the county in paying the sheriff's salary required by | ||
| Section 152.0715 as follows: | ||
| (1) if a county has a population of 25,000 or less, the | ||
| county is entitled to a payment of $25,000; and | ||
| (2) if a county has a population of more than 25,000, | ||
| the county is entitled to a payment of $10,000. | ||
| (c) Not later than the 30th day after the first day of a | ||
| county's fiscal year, the county must submit an application in the | ||
| form and manner prescribed by comptroller rule to the comptroller | ||
| to receive the assistance payment. | ||
| (d) The comptroller shall remit the applicable assistance | ||
| payment to which a county is entitled from available state funds not | ||
| later than the 30th day after the date the comptroller receives the | ||
| county's application for the assistance payment. | ||
| (e) The comptroller shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a county fiscal year that begins on or after January 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2024, the comptroller | ||
| of public accounts shall adopt rules as required by Section | ||
| 152.0716(e), Local Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
