H.B. No. 2067
    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.