1-1 By: Place, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 535
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1993;
1-3 April 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to an exemption from the nepotism law for personal
1-24 attendants of certain officers.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 1, Article 5996g, Revised Statutes, is
1-27 amended to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 1. This law does not apply to:
1-29 (1) an appointment to the office of a notary public,
1-30 or to the confirmation thereof;
1-31 (2) an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant or
1-32 other employee by the Legislature for attendance on any member of
1-33 the Legislature who, by reason of physical infirmities, is required
1-34 to have a personal attendant;
1-35 (3) a confirmation of an appointee appointed to a
1-36 first term on a date when no person related to the appointee within
1-37 the prohibited degree was a member of or a candidate for the
1-38 Legislature, or confirmation upon reappointment of the appointee to
1-39 any subsequent consecutive term; <or>
1-40 (4) an appointment or employment of a substitute
1-41 teacher or bus driver by a school district if:
1-42 (A) the district is located wholly in a county
1-43 with a population of less than 35,000 according to the most recent
1-44 federal census; or
1-45 (B) the district is located in more than one
1-46 county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
1-47 located has a population of less than 35,000 according to the most
1-48 recent federal census; or
1-49 (5) an appointment or employment of a personal
1-50 attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of
1-51 the state for attendance on the officer who, by reason of physical
1-52 infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant.
1-53 SECTION 2. The addition by this Act of Section 1(5), Article
1-54 5996g, Revised Statutes, applies only to an appointment or
1-55 employment on or after the effective date of this Act. An
1-56 appointment or employment made before the effective date of this
1-57 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time of the appointment
1-58 or employment and that law is continued in effect for that purpose
1-59 only.
1-60 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-61 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-62 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-63 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-64 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-65 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-66 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 Austin,
2-1 Texas
2-2 May 10, 1993
2-3 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-4 President of the Senate
2-5 Sir:
2-6 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
2-7 No. 535, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-8 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-9 pass and be printed.
2-10 Harris of
2-11 Dallas, Chairman
2-12 * * * * *
2-13 WITNESSES
2-14 No witnesses appeared on H.B. 535.