73R3373 MLR-F
By Coleman H.B. No. 2067
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an alternate promotional system for the police
1-3 department in certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 143.035(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This section does not apply to a municipality that has
1-8 <a population of 1.5 million or more or that has> adopted The Fire
1-9 and Police Employee Relations Act (Article 5154c-1, Vernon's Texas
1-10 Civil Statutes).
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.