1-1  By:  Tillery (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)            H.B. No. 1652
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
    1-4  Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to personnel records maintained by certain sheriff's
    1-9  departments.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Sections 157.904(a) and (c), Local Government
   1-12  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  This section applies only to a sheriff's department in a
   1-14  county with a population of 100,000 <2,000,000> or more.
   1-15        (c)  In a county with a population of 2,000,000 or more, the
   1-16  <The> sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall maintain a permanent
   1-17  personnel file on each department employee.  In any county to which
   1-18  this section applies and in which the sheriff or the sheriff's
   1-19  designee maintains a <An employee's> permanent personnel file, the
   1-20  file must contain any employee record relating to:
   1-21              (1)  a commendation, congratulation, or honor bestowed
   1-22  on the employee by a member of the public or by the department for
   1-23  an action, duty, or activity that relates to the employee's
   1-24  official duties;
   1-25              (2)  any misconduct by the employee if the employee
   1-26  record is made by the department and if the misconduct resulted in
   1-27  disciplinary action by the department; and
   1-28              (3)  the periodic evaluation of the employee by a
   1-29  supervisor.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-35  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-36  passage, and it is so enacted.
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