73R2642 MJW-D
          By Place, et al.                                       H.B. No. 535
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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.