TO: | Honorable Tommy Merritt, Chair, House Committee on Public Safety |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB243 by Alonzo (Relating to equipping certain K-9 law enforcement vehicles with heat alarm systems. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency (Department of Public Safety, sheriff's departments, and municipal police departments) to equip each vehicle used in a K-9 law enforcement program with a heat alarm system that meets standards established in the bill. A heat alarm system installed in a vehicle used in a K-9 law enforcement program on the effective date of the bill would not be required to meet the standards for a system established in the bill until January 1, 2011.
The Department of Public Safety already has a heat alarm system that meets the standards installed in its K-9 law enforcement program vehicles; therefore, no new costs would be incurred for the state.
Source Agencies: | 405 Department of Public Safety
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LBB Staff: | JOB, DB, ESi, MWU
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