By McCoulskey H.B. No. 1036 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority to abolish the position of marshal in a 1-3 Type B general law city. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Add a new Section 23.029 to the Texas Local 1-6 Government Code to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 23.029. ABOLITION OF OFFICE OF MARSHAL. The governing 1-8 body of a municipality with a population of less than 5,000 by 1-9 ordinance may abolish the office of marshal and, at the same time 1-10 in the ordinance, confer the duties of the office on a municipal 1-11 police officer appointed as the governing body directs. However, 1-12 an elected marshal may not be removed from office under this 1-13 subsection. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.