By Madden H.B. No. 1410
74R4000 MJW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to expanding the exception to nepotism prohibitions for a
1-3 substitute teacher hired by a school district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 573.061, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 573.061. GENERAL EXCEPTIONS. Section 573.041 does not
1-8 apply to:
1-9 (1) an appointment to the office of a notary public or
1-10 to the confirmation of that appointment;
1-11 (2) an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant, or
1-12 other employee by the legislature for attendance on any member of
1-13 the legislature who, because of physical infirmities, is required
1-14 to have a personal attendant;
1-15 (3) a confirmation of the appointment of an appointee
1-16 appointed to a first term on a date when no individual related to
1-17 the appointee within a degree described by Section 573.002 was a
1-18 member of or a candidate for the legislature, or confirmation on
1-19 reappointment of the appointee to any subsequent consecutive term;
1-20 <or>
1-21 (4) an appointment or employment of a substitute
1-22 <teacher or> bus driver by a school district if:
1-23 (A) the district is located wholly in a county
1-24 with a population of less than 35,000; or
2-1 (B) the district is located in more than one
2-2 county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
2-3 located has a population of less than 35,000; or
2-4 (5) an appointment or employment of a substitute
2-5 teacher by a school district.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.