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 1-64 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-65 Name: Carvel L. McNeil Jr. x 1-66 Representing: Houston Police Patrolmen's 1-67 City: Houston 1-68 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1 Name: J. R. Campbell x 2-2 Representing: Harris County Deputy Sheriff 2-3 City: Pasadena 2-4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-5 Name: Humberto Rios Barrera x 2-6 Representing: Harris County Deputy Sheriff 2-7 City: Houston 2-8 -------------------------------------------------------------------