By: Dutton H.B. No. 1412 73R4251 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to restrictions on the ability of county civil service 1-3 employees to run for certain elective offices. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.009, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The commission may not adopt or enforce a rule requiring 1-8 a county employee to resign to run for an elective office of the 1-9 county unless the employee is a subordinate to the current holder 1-10 of that office. 1-11 SECTION 2. Section 158.035, Local Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-13 (c) The commission may not adopt or enforce a rule requiring 1-14 a department employee, including a deputy sheriff, to resign to run 1-15 for an elective office of the county unless the employee is running 1-16 for sheriff of the county in which the employee is a department 1-17 employee. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.