By Eiland                                             H.B. No. 1529
       74R4919 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to examination requirements for certain reappointed
    1-3  firefighters or police 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 firefighter or police officer
   1-17  who voluntarily resigns from the department to be reappointed to
   1-18  the 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 firefighter or police officer
   1-24  who voluntarily resigns from the department to be reappointed to
    2-1  the 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  firefighter or police officer who resigned before, on, or after the
    2-5  effective date of this Act.
    2-6        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.