By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 434
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to restrictions on the ability of county civil service
    1-2  employees to run for certain elective offices.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 158.009, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-6        (d)  The commission may not adopt or enforce a rule requiring
    1-7  a county employee to resign to run for an elective office of the
    1-8  county unless the employee is a subordinate to the current holder
    1-9  of that office.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 158.035, Local Government Code, is
   1-11  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-12        (c)  The commission may not adopt or enforce a rule requiring
   1-13  a department employee, including a deputy sheriff, to resign to run
   1-14  for an elective office of the county unless the employee is running
   1-15  for sheriff of the county in which the employee is a department
   1-16  employee.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.