Bill Text: TX SB244 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the continuing education requirements for certain peace officers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB244 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB244-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 244 | ||
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| relating to the continuing education requirements for certain peace | ||
| officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 96.641, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 96.641. INITIAL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR | ||
| POLICE CHIEFS AND COMMAND STAFF. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 96.641, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The institute may establish and offer a continuing | ||
| education program for command staff for individuals who are second | ||
| in command to police chiefs. The command staff continuing | ||
| education program must satisfy the requirements for the police | ||
| chief continuing education program under Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 1701.351, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A peace officer who is second in command to a police | ||
| chief of a law enforcement agency and who attends a continuing | ||
| education program for command staff provided by the Bill Blackwood | ||
| Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas under Section 96.641, | ||
| Education Code, is exempt from the continuing education | ||
| requirements of this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 244 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 244 passed the House on | ||
| May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
