1-1 By: Whitmire S.B. No. 434
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1993; February 23, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 15, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 15, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to restrictions on the ability of county civil service
1-22 employees to run for certain elective offices.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 158.009, Local Government Code, is
1-25 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-26 (d) The commission may not adopt or enforce a rule requiring
1-27 a county employee to resign to run for an elective office of the
1-28 county unless the employee is a subordinate to the current holder
1-29 of that office.
1-30 SECTION 2. Section 158.035, Local Government Code, is
1-31 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-32 (c) The commission may not adopt or enforce a rule requiring
1-33 a department employee, including a deputy sheriff, to resign to run
1-34 for an elective office of the county unless the employee is running
1-35 for sheriff of the county in which the employee is a department
1-36 employee.
1-37 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-42 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-43 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-44 * * * * *
1-45 Austin,
1-46 Texas
1-47 April 15, 1993
1-48 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-49 President of the Senate
1-50 Sir:
1-51 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-52 referred S.B. No. 434, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-53 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-54 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-55 Armbrister,
1-56 Chairman
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 WITNESSES
1-59 FOR AGAINST ON
1-60 ___________________________________________________________________
1-61 Name: Lynwood Moreau x
1-62 Representing: Harris County Deputy Sheriffs
1-63 City: Houston
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1-65 Name: Carvel L. McNeil Jr. x
1-66 Representing: Houston Police Patrolmen's
1-67 City: Houston
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2-1 Name: J. R. Campbell x
2-2 Representing: Harris County Deputy Sheriff
2-3 City: Pasadena
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2-5 Name: Humberto Rios Barrera x
2-6 Representing: Harris County Deputy Sheriff
2-7 City: Houston
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