1-1  By:  Eiland (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)               H.B. No. 1529
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; April 19, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to examination requirements for certain reappointed police
   1-10  officers.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 143.021(c), Local Government Code, is
   1-13  amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (c)  Except as provided by Sections 143.013, 143.014,
   1-15  143.0251, <and> 143.102, and 143.1251, an existing position or
   1-16  classification or a position or classification created in the
   1-17  future either by name or by increase in salary may be filled only
   1-18  from an eligibility list that results from an examination held in
   1-19  accordance with this chapter.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
   1-21  is amended by adding Section 143.0251 to read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 143.0251.  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
   1-25  department without taking another departmental entrance
   1-26  examination.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  Subchapter G, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
   1-28  is amended by adding Section 143.1251 to read as follows:
   1-29        Sec. 143.1251.  REAPPOINTMENT AFTER RESIGNATION.  The
   1-30  commission may adopt rules to allow a police officer who
   1-31  voluntarily resigns from the department to be reappointed to the
   1-32  department without taking another departmental entrance
   1-33  examination.
   1-34        SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act apply to a
   1-35  police officer who resigned before, on, or after the effective date
   1-36  of this Act.
   1-37        SECTION 5.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-38        (b)  The governmental acts and proceedings of a municipality
   1-39  or of a police department that reemployed or reappointed a police
   1-40  officer who had resigned from the department are validated as of
   1-41  the date they occurred.  The acts and proceedings may not be held
   1-42  invalid because they were not performed in accordance with law.
   1-43        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-44  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-45  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-46  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-47  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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