87R5690 JTS-D
 
  By: Minjarez H.B. No. 1350
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the publication of certain information regarding
  certain disciplinary appeals filed by police officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 411.056 to read as follows:
         Sec. 411.056.  REPORTING ON POLICE OFFICER DISCIPLINARY
  APPEAL HEARINGS. The department shall publish on the department's
  Internet website the information reported to the department under
  Section 180.008, Local Government Code.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended
  by adding Section 180.008 to read as follows:
         Sec. 180.008.  ARBITRATOR REPORTING REGARDING CERTAIN
  DISCIPLINARY APPEAL HEARINGS FOR POLICE OFFICERS. An arbitrator
  selected to hear an appeal of the disciplinary suspension or
  dismissal of a municipal police officer, deputy sheriff, deputy
  constable, or other police officer, including an appeal under
  Section 143.057 or 143.1016 or under a collective bargaining, meet
  and confer, or other similar agreement, shall report to the
  Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas, for each hearing
  arbitrated by the arbitrator:
               (1)  the ruling in the hearing;
               (2)  the date of the ruling;
               (3)  sources of the arbitrator's payment; and
               (4)  amounts paid to the police officer as a result of
  the ruling in the hearing.
         SECTION 3.  Section 180.008, Local Government Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to a disciplinary appeal that is initiated
  on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.