Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has announced a major initiative to better protect police and support the families of Texas first responders. Lt. Gov. Patrick has made the safety of police officers across the state a top priority, including helping provide police with protective vests capable of stopping high-caliber bullets. Another initiative proposed by Patrick would exempt certain property taxes, “This initiative, modeled after legislation previously passed for combat veterans killed in the line-of-duty, will exempt surviving spouses of fallen officers from having to pay property taxes on their homes, even if the home no longer carries a mortgage. This will help ensure surviving spouses will never be taxed out of their homestead.”
Last fall, Lt. Governor Patrick declared police safety as a top priority interim charge for the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.
