74R11093 PEP-D
          By Tillery                                            H.B. No. 1652
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to personnel records maintained by certain sheriff's
    1-3  departments.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 157.904(a) and (c), Local Government
    1-6  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  This section applies only to a sheriff's department in a
    1-8  county with a population of 100,000 <2,000,000> or more.
    1-9        (c)  In a county with a population of 2,000,000 or more, the
   1-10  <The> sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall maintain a permanent
   1-11  personnel file on each department employee.  In any county to which
   1-12  this section applies and in which the sheriff or the sheriff's
   1-13  designee maintains a <An employee's> permanent personnel file, the
   1-14  file must contain any employee record relating to:
   1-15              (1)  a commendation, congratulation, or honor bestowed
   1-16  on the employee by a member of the public or by the department for
   1-17  an action, duty, or activity that relates to the employee's
   1-18  official duties;
   1-19              (2)  any misconduct by the employee if the employee
   1-20  record is made by the department and if the misconduct resulted in
   1-21  disciplinary action by the department; and
   1-22              (3)  the periodic evaluation of the employee by a
   1-23  supervisor.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.