H.B. No. 535
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption from the nepotism law for personal
1-3 attendants of certain officers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1, Article 5996g, Revised Statutes, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 1. This law does not apply to:
1-8 (1) an appointment to the office of a notary public,
1-9 or to the confirmation thereof;
1-10 (2) an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant or
1-11 other employee by the Legislature for attendance on any member of
1-12 the Legislature who, by reason of physical infirmities, is required
1-13 to have a personal attendant;
1-14 (3) a confirmation of an appointee appointed to a
1-15 first term on a date when no person related to the appointee within
1-16 the prohibited degree was a member of or a candidate for the
1-17 Legislature, or confirmation upon reappointment of the appointee to
1-18 any subsequent consecutive term; <or>
1-19 (4) an appointment or employment of a substitute
1-20 teacher or bus driver by a school district if:
1-21 (A) the district is located wholly in a county
1-22 with a population of less than 35,000 according to the most recent
1-23 federal census; or
1-24 (B) the district is located in more than one
2-1 county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
2-2 located has a population of less than 35,000 according to the most
2-3 recent federal census; or
2-4 (5) an appointment or employment of a personal
2-5 attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of
2-6 the state for attendance on the officer who, by reason of physical
2-7 infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant.
2-8 SECTION 2. The addition by this Act of Section 1(5), Article
2-9 5996g, Revised Statutes, applies only to an appointment or
2-10 employment on or after the effective date of this Act. An
2-11 appointment or employment made before the effective date of this
2-12 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time of the appointment
2-13 or employment and that law is continued in effect for that purpose
2-14 only.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.