| |
|
| |
|
|
By: King, Eckhardt |
S.B. No. 1124 |
|
|
(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2023; March 9, 2023, |
|
|
read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; |
|
|
April 17, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
|
|
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 2; April 17, 2023, |
|
|
sent to printer.) |
| Click here to see the committee vote |
| |
|
|
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1124 |
By: Springer |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
| |
|
|
relating to qualifications of a sheriff or a candidate for sheriff. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 85.0011, Local Government Code, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 85.0011. QUALIFICATIONS FOR SHERIFF OR CANDIDATE FOR |
|
|
SHERIFF. (a) A person is not eligible to serve as sheriff unless |
|
|
the person: |
|
|
(1) has a high school diploma or a high school |
|
|
equivalency certificate; and |
|
|
(2) holds an active permanent peace officer |
|
|
license [is eligible to be licensed] under Chapter 1701 [Sections |
|
|
1701.309 and 1701.312], Occupations Code. |
|
|
(b) A person is not eligible to be a candidate for the office |
|
|
of sheriff unless the person holds an active permanent peace |
|
|
officer license under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Section 1701.302(a), Occupations Code, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(a) Except as provided by Section 85.0011, Local Government |
|
|
Code, an [An] officer[, including a sheriff,] elected under the |
|
|
Texas Constitution or a statute or appointed to fill a vacancy in an |
|
|
elective office must obtain a license from the commission not later |
|
|
than the second anniversary of the date the officer takes office. |
|
|
SECTION 3. Section 85.0025, Local Government Code, is |
|
|
repealed. |
|
|
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections |
|
|
85.0011 and 85.0025, Local Government Code, do not apply to a |
|
|
sheriff serving a term that began before the effective date of this |
|
|
Act. A sheriff serving a term that began before the effective date |
|
|
of this Act is governed for the remainder of that term by Sections |
|
|
85.0011 and 85.0025, Local Government Code, as those laws existed |
|
|
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the prior law |
|
|
is continued in effect for that purpose. |
|
|
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |
|
|
|
|
|
* * * * * |