By Madla                                         S.B. No. 186

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the allocation of certain money in the law enforcement

 1-3     officer standards and education account.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 415.0845(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  Not later than March 1 of each calendar year, the

 1-8     comptroller shall allocate money deposited during the preceding

 1-9     calendar year in the general revenue fund to the credit of the law

1-10     enforcement officer standards and education account for expenses

1-11     related to the continuing education of persons licensed under this

1-12     chapter as follows:

1-13                 (1)  20 percent of the money is allocated to all local

1-14     law enforcement agencies in the state in equal shares; and

1-15                 (2)  80 percent of the money is allocated to all local

1-16     law enforcement agencies in the state in a share representing a

1-17     fixed amount for each position in the agency, as of January 1 of

1-18     the preceding calendar year, that is reserved to a person who:

1-19                       (A)  is licensed under this chapter;

1-20                       (B)  works as a peace officer on the average of

1-21     at least 32 hours a week; and

1-22                       (C)  is compensated by [the state or] a political

1-23     subdivision of the state at the rate of the minimum wage or higher

1-24     and is entitled to all employee benefits offered to a peace officer

 2-1     by the [state or] political subdivision.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect December 31, 1997.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.