Bill Text: TX SB29 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to establishment of the immigration authority delegation training grant program for local law enforcement agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-08 - Filed [SB29 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB29-Introduced.html
| By: Hall | S.B. No. 29 | |
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| relating to establishment of the immigration authority delegation | ||
| training grant program for local law enforcement agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 4, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 424 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 424. IMMIGRATION | ||
| Sec. 424.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "training | ||
| program" means a training program operated by United States | ||
| Immigration and Customs Enforcement for training local law | ||
| enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law. The term | ||
| includes the immigration authority delegation program and the | ||
| immigration authority delegation refresher training program | ||
| established under Section 287(g) of the federal Immigration and | ||
| Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1357(g)). | ||
| Sec. 424.002. IMMIGRATION DELEGATION TRAINING GRANT | ||
| PROGRAM FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. (a) The office of the governor | ||
| shall develop and maintain a grant program that awards grants for | ||
| the expenses incurred by a local law enforcement agency related to | ||
| the attendance of a law enforcement officer of the agency in a | ||
| training program. | ||
| (b) A local law enforcement agency may apply to the office | ||
| of the governor in the form and manner required by the office of the | ||
| governor for a grant under the grant program established by this | ||
| section. To qualify for a grant, an applicant must: | ||
| (1) apply for preauthorization from the office of the | ||
| governor before the law enforcement officer attends the training | ||
| program; and | ||
| (2) demonstrate that the law enforcement officer who | ||
| will attend the training program: | ||
| (A) is primarily engaged in making arrests; and | ||
| (B) meets all of the United States Immigration | ||
| and Customs Enforcement officer selection requirements required to | ||
| attend the training program. | ||
| Sec. 424.003. GRANT AMOUNT. If the application for a grant | ||
| under the grant program established under this section is approved, | ||
| the office of the governor shall issue a grant to the applicant in | ||
| the amount of: | ||
| (1) the salary of the law enforcement officer for: | ||
| (A) four weeks, if the officer attends the basic | ||
| training course under the training program; or | ||
| (B) one week, if the officer attends the | ||
| refresher course under the training program; | ||
| (2) the costs incurred by the applicant because of the | ||
| officer's absence while the officer is attending the training | ||
| program, including overtime pay to another officer to fulfill the | ||
| duties of the absent officer; and | ||
| (3) other expenses the office of the governor | ||
| considers necessary for the participation in the training program. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
