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.