Bill Text: TX SB877 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to establishing the Citizens' Star of Texas Award.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB877 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB877-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 877 | ||
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| relating to establishing the Citizens' Star of Texas Award. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 3106.001, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows: | ||
| (4) "Next of kin" means the relative in the nearest | ||
| degree of relationship to a deceased person, including the person's | ||
| spouse, child, parent, or sibling. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 3106, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 3106.0041 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 3106.0041. CITIZENS' STAR OF TEXAS AWARD. (a) The | ||
| Citizens' Star of Texas Award shall be awarded to: | ||
| (1) a private citizen who is seriously injured while | ||
| aiding or attempting to aid a peace officer, firefighter, or | ||
| emergency medical first responder in the performance of the duties | ||
| of the officer, firefighter, or first responder; and | ||
| (2) the surviving next of kin of a private citizen who | ||
| is killed or sustains a fatal injury while aiding or attempting to | ||
| aid a peace officer, firefighter, or emergency medical first | ||
| responder in the performance of the duties of the officer, | ||
| firefighter, or first responder. | ||
| (b) The Peace Officers' Star of Texas Award Advisory | ||
| Committee under Section 3106.002, the Firefighters' Star of Texas | ||
| Award Advisory Committee under Section 3106.003, and the Emergency | ||
| Medical First Responders' Star of Texas Award Advisory Committee | ||
| under Section 3106.004, as applicable, shall advise the governor on | ||
| the issuance, design, and presentation of the Citizens' Star of | ||
| Texas Award. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 3106.007, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 3106.007. RECOMMENDATION FOR AWARD. (a) Any person | ||
| who has personal knowledge that a peace officer, firefighter, or | ||
| emergency medical first responder has been killed or seriously | ||
| injured in the line of duty, or that a federal law enforcement | ||
| officer or special agent has been killed or seriously injured while | ||
| performing duties in this state to assist a state or local law | ||
| enforcement agency, may submit that information in writing to a | ||
| committee under this chapter. | ||
| (b) The head of an agency that employs a peace officer, | ||
| firefighter, or emergency medical first responder who has knowledge | ||
| of a private citizen described by Section 3106.0041(a) and a state | ||
| legislator representing the district in which the private citizen | ||
| resides may submit information about the private citizen in writing | ||
| to a committee under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 877 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 877 passed the House on | ||
| May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
