By:  Bivins                                             S.B. No. 67
       73R498 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an exemption from the nepotism law for certain small
    1-3  school districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1, Article 5996g, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 1.  This law does not apply to:
    1-8              (1)  an appointment to the office of a notary public,
    1-9  or to the confirmation thereof;
   1-10              (2)  an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant or
   1-11  other employee by the Legislature for attendance on any member of
   1-12  the Legislature who, by reason of physical infirmities, is required
   1-13  to have a personal attendant;
   1-14              (3)  a confirmation of an appointee appointed to a
   1-15  first term on a date when no person related to the appointee within
   1-16  the prohibited degree was a member of or a candidate for the
   1-17  Legislature, or confirmation upon reappointment of the appointee to
   1-18  any subsequent consecutive term; or
   1-19              (4)  an appointment or employment of an employee <a
   1-20  substitute teacher or bus driver> by a school district if:
   1-21                    (A)  the district is located wholly in a county
   1-22  with a population of less than 35,000 according to the most recent
   1-23  federal census; or
   1-24                    (B)  the district is located in more than one
    2-1  county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
    2-2  located has a population of less than 35,000 according to the most
    2-3  recent federal census.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  Section 1(4), Article 5996g, Revised Statutes, as
    2-5  amended by this Act, applies only to an appointment or employment
    2-6  made on or after the effective date of this Act.  An appointment or
    2-7  employment made before the effective date of this Act is governed
    2-8  by the law in effect at the time of the appointment or employment,
    2-9  and that law is continued in effect for that purpose only.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.