H.B. No. 1529
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to examination requirements for certain reappointed police
    1-3  officers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 143.021(c), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  Except as provided by Sections 143.013, 143.014,
    1-8  143.0251, <and> 143.102, and 143.1251, an existing position or
    1-9  classification or a position or classification created in the
   1-10  future either by name or by increase in salary may be filled only
   1-11  from an eligibility list that results from an examination held in
   1-12  accordance with this chapter.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
   1-14  is amended by adding Section 143.0251 to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 143.0251.  REAPPOINTMENT AFTER RESIGNATION.  The
   1-16  commission may adopt rules to allow a police officer who
   1-17  voluntarily resigns from the department to be reappointed to the
   1-18  department without taking another departmental entrance
   1-19  examination.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  Subchapter G, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
   1-21  is amended by adding Section 143.1251 to read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 143.1251.  REAPPOINTMENT AFTER RESIGNATION.  The
   1-23  commission may adopt rules to allow a police officer who
   1-24  voluntarily resigns from the department to be reappointed to the
    2-1  department without taking another departmental entrance
    2-2  examination.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act apply to a
    2-4  police officer who resigned before, on, or after the effective date
    2-5  of this Act.
    2-6        SECTION 5.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        (b)  The governmental acts and proceedings of a municipality
    2-8  or of a police department that reemployed or reappointed a police
    2-9  officer who had resigned from the department are validated as of
   2-10  the date they occurred.  The acts and proceedings may not be held
   2-11  invalid because they were not performed in accordance with law.
   2-12        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.