Bill Text: TX SB913 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the ineligibility of certain local governments for certain criminal justice grants as a result of budget reductions affecting local law enforcement agencies.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Jurisprudence [SB913 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB913-Introduced.html
| By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 913 | |
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| relating to the ineligibility of certain local governments for | ||
| certain criminal justice grants as a result of budget reductions | ||
| affecting local law enforcement agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 772, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 772.0065 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 772.0065. INELIGIBILITY FOR GRANT FOLLOWING CERTAIN | ||
| BUDGET REDUCTIONS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Criminal justice division" means the criminal | ||
| justice division established under Section 772.006. | ||
| (2) "Local government" means a municipality or county. | ||
| (b) A local government is ineligible to receive a grant | ||
| awarded by the criminal justice division if the division determines | ||
| that: | ||
| (1) the local government has adopted a budget for a | ||
| fiscal year for the sheriff's department or municipal police | ||
| department, as applicable, that in comparison to the preceding | ||
| fiscal year reduces the budget of the department by 5 percent or | ||
| more and the reduction is not due to a similar decrease in the | ||
| amount of tax revenue collected by the local government; and | ||
| (2) the reduction will have a significant, adverse | ||
| effect on public safety within the applicable county or | ||
| municipality. | ||
| (c) A local government that is receiving money under a grant | ||
| awarded by the criminal justice division shall notify the division | ||
| of any reduction described by Subsection (b)(1) not later than the | ||
| 15th day after the date the reduction takes effect. At the request | ||
| of the criminal justice division, the local government shall | ||
| provide a description of the reduction and any anticipated effects | ||
| on public safety. | ||
| (d) The criminal justice division shall require a local | ||
| government applying for a grant to: | ||
| (1) disclose whether the most recent budget of the | ||
| local government constitutes a reduction as described by Subsection | ||
| (b)(1); and | ||
| (2) provide a description of the reduction and any | ||
| anticipated effects on public safety. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| with respect to the adoption of a budget by a municipality or county | ||
| for a fiscal year that begins on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
