Bill Text: TX SB1762 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Police Service Animals Memorial Monument in the Capitol Complex.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-26 - Referred to Administration [SB1762 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1762-Introduced.html
| By: Springer | S.B. No. 1762 | |
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| relating to the establishment of the Texas Police Service | ||
| Animals Memorial Monument in the Capitol Complex. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 11, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 3107 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 3107. TEXAS POLICE SERVICE ANIMALS MEMORIAL MONUMENT | ||
| Sec. 3107.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Board" means the State Preservation Board. | ||
| (2) "Committee" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 3105.002. | ||
| (3) "Monument" means the Texas Police Service Animals | ||
| Memorial Monument. | ||
| (4) "Police service animal" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 38.151, Penal Code. | ||
| Sec. 3107.002. TEXAS POLICE SERVICE ANIMALS MEMORIAL | ||
| MONUMENT. The board shall establish a Texas Police Service Animals | ||
| Memorial Monument on the grounds of the Capitol Complex adjacent to | ||
| the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial Monument to recognize and honor | ||
| police service animals that were killed in the line of duty. | ||
| Sec. 3107.003. MAINTENANCE OF MONUMENT. (a) The board is | ||
| responsible for the maintenance of the monument. The board may | ||
| raise money from private or public entities for the continued | ||
| maintenance and update of the monument. The board shall: | ||
| (1) establish a schedule for the maintenance of the | ||
| monument; and | ||
| (2) select persons to maintain the monument. | ||
| (b) An entity that collects funds for the maintenance and | ||
| improvement of the monument shall send that money to the board to be | ||
| deposited in the Capitol fund account. | ||
| Sec. 3107.004. ACCOUNT. (a) Money contributed to the state | ||
| for a purpose related to the monument shall be deposited by the | ||
| board in the Capitol fund to the credit of a separate | ||
| interest-bearing account established for the monument. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, income from investments of | ||
| money in the account shall be deposited to the credit of the | ||
| account. | ||
| (c) Money in the account may be used only for the purposes | ||
| prescribed by Section 3107.003. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
