1-1  By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 249
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 17, 1995; January 18, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  April 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to a municipality's power to require citizenship as a
    1-9  prerequisite to employment as a peace officer.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  The title of Subchapter B, Chapter 150, Local
   1-12  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13         SUBCHAPTER B.  RESIDENCY OR CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 150, Local Government Code,
   1-15  is amended by adding Section 150.022 to read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 150.022.  CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT.  (a)  A municipality
   1-17  may require United States citizenship as a prerequisite to
   1-18  appointment or employment as a peace officer by that municipality.
   1-19        (b)  In this section, "peace officer" means an individual who
   1-20  is a peace officer under Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure,
   1-21  or other law.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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