1-1  By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 563
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 14, 1995; February 15, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; February 22, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; February 22, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Leedom
    1-8  Amend S.B. No. 563, line 22 (Committee printing line) by inserting
    1-9  after the word "directs" and before the "." the following:  or on
   1-10  any other peace officer of the county
   1-11                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-12                                AN ACT
   1-13  relating to the authority to abolish the position of marshal in a
   1-14  Type B general-law municipality.
   1-15        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-16        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 23, Local Government Code,
   1-17  is amended by adding Section 23.029 to read as follows:
   1-18        Sec. 23.029.  ABOLITION OF OFFICE OF MARSHAL.  The governing
   1-19  body of a municipality with a population of less than 5,000 by
   1-20  ordinance may abolish the office of marshal and, by the same
   1-21  ordinance, confer the duties of the office on a municipal police
   1-22  officer appointed as the governing body directs.  However, an
   1-23  elected marshal may not be removed from office under this section.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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