Title GV, Government Code

Sec. 411.0031. TRAINING FOR COMMISSION MEMBERS. (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the commission may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as a member in attendance at a meeting of the commission until the person completes a training program t…

Sec. 411.0035. MEMBER AND GENERAL COUNSEL RESTRICTION. (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined statewide association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to assist its members and its industry or professi…

Sec. 411.0036. REMOVAL OF COMMISSION MEMBER. (a) It is a ground for removal from the commission if a member: (1) does not have at the time of appointment the qualifications required by Section 411.003; (2) does not maintain during service on the commission the qualifications requ…

Sec. 411.004. DUTIES AND POWERS OF COMMISSION. The commission shall: (1) formulate plans and policies for: (A) enforcement of state criminal, traffic, and safety laws; (B) prevention of crime; (C) detection and apprehension of persons who violate laws; and (D) education of citize…

Sec. 411.0041. OPEN MEETINGS EXCEPTION: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. A discussion or deliberation of the commission regarding an ongoing criminal investigation, including a vote to issue a directive or take other action regarding the investigation, is not subject to the open meetings…

Sec. 411.0042. DIVISION OF RESPONSIBILITIES. The commission shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policymaking responsibilities of the commission and the management responsibilities of the director and the staff of the department. Added by Acts 2009, 81st…

Sec. 411.0043. TECHNOLOGY POLICY; REVIEW. (a) The commission shall implement a policy requiring the department to use appropriate technological solutions to improve the department's ability to perform its functions. The policy must ensure that the public is able to interact with …

Sec. 411.0044. NEGOTIATED RULEMAKING AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION. (a) The commission shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008 for the adoption of department rules; and (2) appropriate alternative …

Sec. 411.0045. PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAMS. The commission shall adopt: (1) physical fitness programs in accordance with Section 614.172; and (2) a resolution certifying that the programs adopted under Subdivision (1) are consistent with generally accepted scientific standards and …

Sec. 411.005. DIRECTOR, DEPUTY DIRECTORS, AND ASSISTANT DIRECTORS. (a) The commission shall appoint a citizen of the United States as public safety director. The director serves until removed by the commission. (b) The director may appoint, with the advice and consent of the comm…

Sec. 411.006. DUTIES OF DIRECTOR. (a) The director shall: (1) be directly responsible to the commission for the conduct of the department's affairs; (2) act as executive director of the department; (3) act with the commission in an advisory capacity, without vote; (4) adopt rules…

Sec. 411.007. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. (a) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the director may appoint, promote, reduce, suspend, or discharge any officer or employee of the department. (b) Appointment or promotion of an officer or employee must be based on merit determine…

Sec. 411.0071. DIRECT APPOINTMENT TO MANAGEMENT TEAM POSITIONS BY DIRECTOR. (a) The director may designate a head of a division or a position that involves working directly with the director as a management team position. (b) The director may directly appoint a person to a positi…

Sec. 411.0072. EMPLOYMENT-RELATED GRIEVANCES AND APPEALS OF DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT. (a) In this section: (1) "Disciplinary action" means discharge, suspension, or demotion. (2) "Employment-related grievance" means an employment-related issue, other than a disc…

Sec. 411.0073. MEDIATION OF PERSONNEL DISPUTES. (a) The commission shall establish procedures for an employee to resolve an employment-related grievance covered by Section 411.0072 through mediation if the employee chooses. The procedures must include mediation procedures and est…

Sec. 411.0074. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS FOR CERTAIN APPLICANTS. (a) This section does not apply to: (1) an applicant who is currently a peace officer of the department commissioned by the department; or (2) an applicant for a police communications operator position who is currently…

Sec. 411.00741. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. (a) The department may require a commissioned or noncommissioned officer or employee of the department to submit to the administration of a polygraph examination administered by a polygraph examiner if: (1…

Sec. 411.0075. PERSONNEL POLICIES. (a) The director or the director's designee shall develop an intraagency career ladder program. The program shall require intraagency postings of all non-entry-level positions concurrently with any public posting. (b) The director or the directo…

Sec. 411.00755. PERSONNEL RECORDS OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. (a) In this section: (1) "Personnel record" includes any letter, memorandum, or document maintained by the department that relates to a commissioned officer of the department, including background investigations, employm…

Sec. 411.0076. MINORITY RECRUITING. (a) The department shall continue to place emphasis on minority recruiting and hiring efforts for noncommissioned positions. (b) The department's minority recruiter and equal employment opportunity positions created for personnel and equal empl…

Sec. 411.0077. LIMITATION ON RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN OFF-DUTY ACTIVITIES. (a) During the period that the officer is off duty, a commissioned officer of the department is entitled to attend educational programs or courses or to engage in any outside employment that does not advers…

Sec. 411.0078. USE OF UNIFORM WHILE PERFORMING CERTAIN OFF-DUTY ACTIVITIES. (a) An officer commissioned by the department may purchase from the department at fair market value a uniform to be used by the officer while providing law enforcement services for a person or entity othe…

Sec. 411.0079. WORKING CONDITIONS FOR CERTAIN PREGNANT OFFICERS. (a) The director shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate the request of a commissioned officer of the department who is determined by a physician to be partially physically restricted by a pregnancy if the requ…

Sec. 411.008. DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS. The commission may establish district headquarters and stations at various places in the state and provide personnel and equipment necessary for their functioning and operation. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

Sec. 411.0085. DRIVER'S LICENSE FACILITIES: PERSONNEL. The department may not assign more than 123 commissioned officers plus supervising personnel to driver's license facilities. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Sec. 411.009. LOCAL COOPERATION. (a) The sheriff and constables of each county and chief of police of each municipality are associate members of the department and are entitled to the rights and privileges granted to them by the department. (b) The director may require a sheriff …

Sec. 411.0091. SEX OFFENDER COMPLIANCE UNIT. (a) The director shall create a sex offender compliance unit to be operated by the department. (b) The sex offender compliance unit shall investigate and arrest individuals determined to have committed a sexually violent offense, as de…

Sec. 411.0092. PRIMARY JURISDICTION. The sex offender compliance unit described by Section 411.0091 has primary jurisdiction to investigate a felony offense committed by a sexually violent predator civilly committed under Chapter 841, Health and Safety Code. Added by Acts 2023, 8…

Sec. 411.0095. VEHICLE THEFT CHECKPOINTS AT BORDER CROSSING. (a) The department may establish a program for the purpose of establishing border crossing checkpoints to prevent stolen vehicles, farm tractors or implements, construction equipment, aircraft, or watercraft from enteri…

Sec. 411.0096. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. (a) The department and the office of the governor, criminal justice division, by rule shall adopt a joint memorandum of understanding on coordinating the drug law enforcement …

Sec. 411.0097. MULTICOUNTY DRUG TASK FORCES. (a) The department shall establish policies and procedures for multicounty drug task forces, as defined by Section 362.001, Local Government Code, and may exercise the authority necessary to ensure compliance with those policies and pr…

Sec. 411.0098. COORDINATION WITH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. (a) The department and the Texas Department of Transportation shall establish procedures to ensure effective coordination of the development of transportation infrastructure projects that affect both agencies. (b) Pro…

Sec. 411.0099. NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR ENFORCEMENT OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE RULES. (a) The department shall conduct a long-term needs assessment for the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle rules that considers at a minimum: (1) the inventory of current facilities and equipmen…

Sec. 411.010. ASSISTANCE OF STATE AGENCIES. The attorney general, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas Department of Health, and all other departments of state government shall cooperate with the department in the execution of this chapter and the enforcement of stat…

Sec. 411.011. ASSISTANCE OF STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. (a) The University of Texas and all other state-supported educational institutions shall: (1) cooperate with the department in carrying out this chapter; (2) assist in the giving of instruction in the training schools co…

Sec. 411.0111. PROVISION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TO COMPTROLLER. (a) Not later than June 1 of every fifth year, the department shall provide to the comptroller, for the purpose of assisting the comptroller in the identification of persons entitled to unclaimed property reported to…

Sec. 411.012. COMMAND BY GOVERNOR. The governor may assume command and direct the activities of the commission and department during a public disaster, riot, insurrection, or formation of a dangerous resistance to enforcement of law, or to perform the governor's constitutional du…

Sec. 411.013. EXPENDITURES, DONATIONS, AND APPROPRIATIONS. (a) Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1206, Sec. 28, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. (b) The department may accept donations of money and other real or personal property from any individual, group, association, corporation, or go…

Sec. 411.0131. USE OF SEIZED AND FORFEITED ASSETS. (a) The commission by rule shall establish a process under which the commission approves all of the department's dispositions of assets seized or forfeited under state or federal law and received by or appropriated to the departm…

Sec. 411.0132. USE OF FUNDS TO SUPPORT CERTAIN PERSONS. The department may use appropriated funds to purchase food and beverages for: (1) training functions required of peace officers of the department subject to director approval; and (2) a person who is: (A) activated to provid…

Sec. 411.0135. METHOD OF PAYMENT OF FEES AND CHARGES. (a) The department may adopt rules regarding the method of payment of any fee or charge that is imposed or collected by the department. (b) Rules adopted under Subsection (a) may authorize payment, under circumstances prescrib…

Sec. 411.014. BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT. (a) The state shall provide the necessary buildings, offices, and quarters for the department and its officers and employees in Austin and other places in the state where district headquarters are located. The state shall provide furniture, …

Sec. 411.0141. MULTIUSE TRAINING AND OPERATIONS CENTER FACILITY. (a) The Texas Facilities Commission shall construct a multiuse training and operations center facility to be used by the department, the Texas military forces, county and municipal law enforcement agencies, and any …

Sec. 411.015. ORGANIZATION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the designation by this chapter of certain divisions and division chiefs is not mandatory and this chapter does not prevent the commission from reorganization or consolidation within the department in the inter…

Sec. 411.016. COMPENSATORY TIME; OVERTIME PAY. (a) This section applies to an officer commissioned by the department who is not employed in a position that the director has declared to be administrative, executive, or professional. (b) If, during a 24-hour period, the total numbe…

Sec. 411.0161. DONATION OF ACCRUED COMPENSATORY TIME OR ACCRUED ANNUAL LEAVE FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES. (a) The director shall allow a department employee to voluntarily transfer to a legislative leave pool up to eight hours of compensatory time or annual leave per year earned by …