S.B. No. 965
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the correction of employment termination reports for
  law enforcement officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 1701.4525, Occupations
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1701.4525.  PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF REPORT;
  HEARING[; ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY].
         SECTION 2.  Subsection (e), Section 1701.4525, Occupations
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (e)  In a proceeding to contest information in an employment
  termination report for a report based on alleged misconduct, an
  administrative law judge shall determine if the alleged misconduct
  occurred by a preponderance of the evidence regardless of whether
  the person who is the subject of the report was terminated or the
  person resigned, retired, or separated in lieu of termination.  If
  the alleged misconduct is not supported by a preponderance of the
  evidence, the administrative law judge shall order the commission
  to change the report [to be changed].  The commission shall send the
  changed report to the law enforcement agency that prepared the
  original employment termination report.  The law enforcement agency
  shall replace the original employment termination report with the
  changed report.
         SECTION 3.  Subsection (e-1), Section 1701.4525,
  Occupations Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section
  1701.4525, Occupations Code, apply only to a petition for a
  correction of an employment termination report submitted on or
  after the effective date of this Act.  A petition submitted before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
  the date the petition was submitted, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 965 passed the Senate on
  April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
  the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 8, 2013, by the
  following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 965 passed the House, with
  amendment, on May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147,
  Nays 0, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor