By: Bailey H.B. No. 2441
73R3380 RWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the power of a sheriff's department civil service
1-3 commission to adopt rules concerning the rights of employees during
1-4 an internal investigation.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 158.035(a), Local Government Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) The commission shall adopt, publish, and enforce rules
1-9 regarding:
1-10 (1) selection and classification of employees;
1-11 (2) competitive examinations;
1-12 (3) promotions, seniority, and tenure;
1-13 (4) layoffs and dismissals;
1-14 (5) disciplinary actions;
1-15 (6) grievance procedures; <and>
1-16 (7) the rights of employees during an internal
1-17 investigation; and
1-18 (8) other matters relating to the selection of
1-19 employees and the procedural and substantive rights, advancement,
1-20 benefits, and working conditions of employees.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.