Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to officer disciplinary actions
Topics:Courts & civil law
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 1, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to police officer disciplinary actions. The bill amends Code chapter 80F, relating to the rights of officers and public safety and emergency personnel. The bill prohibits an officer from being discharged, disciplined, or threatened with discharge or discipline by a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency solely due to the inclusion of the officer’s name on a Brady list. The bill defines “Brady list” as a list of officers maintained by the county attorney’s office, including officers who may have impeached themselves as witnesses and officers who may have violated the pretrial discovery rule requiring officers to turn over any evidence that might be used to exonerate a defendant.
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The bill provides that a county attorney’s office maintaining a Brady list shall disclose the contents of the list to the law enforcement agency of an officer included on the list and to the officer. A county attorney’s office shall develop a procedure for a law enforcement agency who employs an officer included on the Brady list, and for an officer included on the Brady list, to challenge the inclusion of an officer on the Brady list. The bill provides that a law enforcement agency may dismiss, suspend, demote, or take other disciplinary action against an officer based on the underlying actions that resulted in the officer’s name being placed on a Brady list including any impeachment evidence against the officer or evidence that the officer failed to provide a defendant with exculpatory evidence.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 1, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2559 Relating to officer disciplinary actions88th General Assembly · Passed House · same titlePassed a chamber
- SF 2377 Relating to officer disciplinary actions88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
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