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TX SB330

Bill

Status

Engrossed

4/24/2025

Primary Sponsor

Joan Huffman

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Origin

Senate

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands existing Texas law requiring voter approval for reductions to county law enforcement agency funding to also cover prosecutors' offices, including district attorneys, criminal district attorneys, and county attorneys with criminal jurisdiction

  • Requires counties to hold an election before reducing appropriations to a prosecutor's office when the overall budget stays the same or increases, or before reducing the prosecutor's percentage of the total budget when overall spending decreases

  • Mandates voter approval before a county can reallocate funding or resources away from a prosecutor's office to another agency

  • Prohibits counties that implement funding cuts without required voter approval from adopting property tax rates above the no-new-revenue rate until the cuts are reversed or approved by voters

  • Takes effect January 1, 2026

Legislative Description

Relating to an election to approve a reduction or reallocation of funding or resources for certain county prosecutors' offices.

County Government

Last Action

Committee report sent to Calendars

5/14/2025

Committee Referrals

State Affairs4/28/2025
Criminal Justice2/3/2025

Full Bill Text

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