1-1  By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 490
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1993; March 1, 1993, read
    1-3  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 the power of a sheriff's department civil service
   1-22  commission to adopt rules concerning the rights of employees during
   1-23  an internal investigation.
   1-24        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-25        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 158.035, Local Government
   1-26  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-27        (a)  The commission shall adopt, publish, and enforce rules
   1-28  regarding:
   1-29              (1)  selection and classification of employees;
   1-30              (2)  competitive examinations;
   1-31              (3)  promotions, seniority, and tenure;
   1-32              (4)  layoffs and dismissals;
   1-33              (5)  disciplinary actions;
   1-34              (6)  grievance procedures; <and>
   1-35              (7)  the rights of employees during an internal
   1-36  investigation; and
   1-37              (8)  other matters relating to the selection of
   1-38  employees and the procedural and substantive rights, advancement,
   1-39  benefits, and working conditions of employees.
   1-40        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-41        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-42  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-43  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-44  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-45  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-47                                                         Austin,
   1-48  Texas
   1-49                                                         April 15, 1993
   1-50  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-51  President of the Senate
   1-52  Sir:
   1-53  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-54  referred S.B. No. 490, have had the same under consideration, and I
   1-55  am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-56  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-57                                                         Armbrister,
   1-58  Chairman
   1-59                               * * * * *
   1-60                               WITNESSES
   1-61                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-62  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-63  Name:  Lynwood Moreau                            x
   1-64  Representing:  Harris County Deputy Sheriffs
   1-65  City:  Deer Park
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   1-67  Name:  Mark Clark                                x
   1-68  Representing:  CLEAT
    2-1  City:  Houston
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    2-3  Name:  Humberto Rios Barrera                     x
    2-4  Representing:  Harris County Deputy Sheriffs
    2-5  City:  Houston
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    2-7  Name:  J. R. Campbell                            x
    2-8  Representing:  Harris County Deputy Sheriffs
    2-9  City:  Pasadena
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