By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 258
       73R2565 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring citizenship as a prerequisite to holding a
    1-3  license from the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards
    1-4  and Education.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 415, Government Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 415.0591 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 415.0591.  CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT.  A person must be a
    1-9  United States citizen to hold a license to be an officer, county
   1-10  jailer, or public security officer.  The commission shall establish
   1-11  procedures for proving citizenship.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.