By Pitts                                              H.B. No. 2000
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application of nepotism laws to the employment of a
    1-3  substitute teacher in school districts and the employment of
    1-4  certain personal attendants.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 573.061, Government Code, is amended to
    1-7  conform to Section 1, Chapter 283, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
    1-8  Regular Session, 1993, and is amended to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 573.061.  GENERAL EXCEPTIONS.  Section 573.041 does not
   1-10  apply to:
   1-11              (1)  an appointment to the office of a notary public or
   1-12  to the confirmation of that appointment;
   1-13              (2)  an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant, or
   1-14  other employee by the legislature for attendance on any member of
   1-15  the legislature who, because of physical infirmities, is required
   1-16  to have a personal attendant;
   1-17              (3)  a confirmation of the appointment of an appointee
   1-18  appointed to a first term on a date when no individual related to
   1-19  the appointee within a degree described by Section 573.002 was a
   1-20  member of or a candidate for the legislature, or confirmation on
   1-21  reappointment of the appointee to any subsequent consecutive term;
   1-22  <or>
   1-23              (4)  an appointment or employment of a <substitute
   1-24  teacher or> bus driver by a school district if:
    2-1                    (A)  the district is located wholly in a county
    2-2  with a population of less than 35,000; or
    2-3                    (B)  the district is located in more than one
    2-4  county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
    2-5  located has a population of less than 35,000;
    2-6              (5)  an appointment or employment of a substitute
    2-7  teacher by a school district; or
    2-8              (6)  an appointment or employment of a personal
    2-9  attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of
   2-10  the state for attendance on the officer who, because of physical
   2-11  infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant.
   2-12        SECTION 2.  (a)  In addition to the substantive changes made
   2-13  by this Act, this Act conforms Section 573.061, Government Code, to
   2-14  Section 1, Chapter 283, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
   2-15  Session, 1993.
   2-16        (b)  Section 1, Chapter 283, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
   2-17  Regular Session, 1993, is repealed.
   2-18        (c)  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
   2-19  another Act of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995,
   2-20  relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
   2-21  codes.
   2-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-1  passage, and it is so enacted.