By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 1181
       74R4334 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to promotional systems in certain police departments.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 143.035(b), Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  On the recommendation of the head of the police
    1-7  department, or on receipt of a petition signed by at least 20
    1-8  percent of the sworn police officers in the department, and after a
    1-9  simple majority vote of the sworn police officers in the department
   1-10  who vote in the election at which the issue is submitted to a vote,
   1-11  the commission may adopt an alternate promotional system to select
   1-12  persons to occupy nonentry level positions other than positions
   1-13  that are filled by appointment by the department head.  The
   1-14  promotional system must be a system suggested by the head of the
   1-15  police department or the petitioning police officers, as
   1-16  applicable, and must comply with the requirements prescribed by
   1-17  this section.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.