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.