Lawmakers are scrambling to find ways to boost law enforcement salaries, relieve jail...
and low morale among overworked officers, all at a time of increasing crime as the state population continues to grow.
Some rural areas like Throckmorton County have no deputies at all. Others, including Tarrant County and Ector County, have had to send jail inmates to other lockups because they don’t have enough staff for their jails. And others including Bexar and Travis counties have been forced to rely heavily on overtime to keep proper staffing levels, straining their personnel and risking burnout.
“It gives a good little chunk of money to each county to try to help with the staffing shortages,” said State Rep. Ryan Guillen, a South Texas Republican who is pushing the bill in the Texas House. SB 22 has passed both the Senate and the House once, but there are differences in the bills that will require more negotiations to settle on its provisions before another round of votes that could send it to Gov. Greg Abbott for final adoption.
Lawmakers are weighing $3.4 billion in additional funding into state mental health programs, which includes creating more mental health beds to reduce the strain on jails., thousands of people who need mental health care are taking up space in jails.
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