By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 135
       73R2818 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to commissions for honorably retired inspectors and
    1-3  representatives of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Alcoholic Beverage Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 5.142 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 5.142.  SPECIAL INSPECTORS OR REPRESENTATIVES.  (a)  The
    1-8  commission or administrator may appoint as a special inspector or
    1-9  representative an honorably retired commissioned inspector or
   1-10  representative.
   1-11        (b)  A special inspector or representative is subject to the
   1-12  orders of the commission and is subject to the orders of the
   1-13  governor for special duty to the same extent as other law
   1-14  enforcement officers.
   1-15        (c)  Before issuance of a commission to a special inspector
   1-16  or representative, the person shall enter into a good and
   1-17  sufficient bond executed by a surety company authorized to do
   1-18  business in the state in the amount of $2,500, approved by the
   1-19  commission, and indemnifying all persons against damages resulting
   1-20  from an unlawful act of the person as a special inspector or
   1-21  representative.
   1-22        (d)  A special inspector or representative is not entitled to
   1-23  compensation from the state for service as a special inspector or
   1-24  representative.
    2-1        (e)  A special inspector or representative commission expires
    2-2  January 1 of the first odd-numbered year after appointment.  The
    2-3  commission may revoke a special inspector or representative
    2-4  commission at any time for cause.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.