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Amend HB 2833 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering the 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION __.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 1701.157, 
Occupations Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Not later than March 1 of each calendar year, the 
comptroller shall allocate money deposited during the preceding 
calendar year in the general revenue fund to the credit of the law 
enforcement officer standards and education fund account for 
expenses related to the continuing education of persons licensed 
under this chapter as follows:
		(1)  20 percent of the money is allocated to [all] local 
law enforcement agencies in this state that meet the eligibility 
requirements described by Subsection (b) in equal shares; and
		(2)  80 percent of the money is allocated to [all] local 
law enforcement agencies in this state that meet the eligibility 
requirements described by Subsection (b) in a share representing a 
fixed amount for each position in the agency, as of January 1 of the 
preceding calendar year, that is reserved to a person who:
			(A)  is licensed under this chapter;                                         
			(B)  works as a peace officer on the average of at 
least 32 hours a week; and
			(C)  is compensated by a political subdivision of 
this state at least at the minimum wage and is entitled to all 
employee benefits offered to a peace officer by the political 
subdivision.
	(b)  To be eligible for an allocation of money under 
Subsection (a), a [Not later than November 1 of each calendar year, 
each] local law enforcement agency must [shall] report to the 
comptroller not later than November 1 of the preceding calendar 
year:
		(1)  the number of agency positions described by 
Subsection (a)(2) reserved as of January 1 of the [that] year the 
report is due;
		(2)  the number of agency positions described by 
Subsection (a)(2) filled as of January 1 of the year the report is 
due;
		(3)  the percentage of the money received by the agency 
under Subsection (a) pursuant to the allocation made by the 
comptroller on or before March 1 of the year preceding the year in 
which the report is due that was used by the agency before the date 
of the allocation made by the comptroller under Subsection (a) on or 
before March 1 of the year the report is due;
		(4)  the number of training hours received during the 
12-month or approximately 12-month period described by Subdivision 
(3) that were funded by money received by the agency pursuant to the 
allocation made by the comptroller on or before March 1 of the year 
preceding the year in which the report is due; and
		(5)  that the agency has complied with the requirements 
of this section regarding the use of any money received by the 
agency pursuant to the allocation made by the comptroller on or 
before March 1 of the year preceding the year in which the report is 
due.
	SECTION __.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section 
1701.157, Occupations Code, apply to allocations made on or after 
January 1, 2009.  Allocations made before that date are governed by 
the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, 
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.