By Jones of Dallas                                    H.B. No. 2542
       74R7429 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the definition of a police officer for purposes of
    1-3  benefits and working conditions in certain municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 142.001, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  For purposes of this chapter, a city marshal is
    1-8  considered to be a police officer and a member of a police
    1-9  department.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.