By: Whitmire S.B. No. 490
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the power of a sheriff's department civil service
1-2 commission to adopt rules concerning the rights of employees during
1-3 an internal investigation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 158.035, Local Government
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The commission shall adopt, publish, and enforce rules
1-8 regarding:
1-9 (1) selection and classification of employees;
1-10 (2) competitive examinations;
1-11 (3) promotions, seniority, and tenure;
1-12 (4) layoffs and dismissals;
1-13 (5) disciplinary actions;
1-14 (6) grievance procedures; <and>
1-15 (7) the rights of employees during an internal
1-16 investigation; and
1-17 (8) other matters relating to the selection of
1-18 employees and the procedural and substantive rights, advancement,
1-19 benefits, and working conditions of employees.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.