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.