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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