By Whitmire                                            S.B. No. 755
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 755:
          By Munoz                                           C.S.S.B. No. 755
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to civil service commission procedures for certain
    1-3  sheriff's departments.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 158.034, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  Each entity that appointed a member of the commission
    1-8  shall appoint a person to serve as an alternate commissioner at any
    1-9  time that the member appointed by the entity under Subsection (a)
   1-10  is unable to attend a commission hearing.  An alternate
   1-11  commissioner must meet the same eligibility requirements and is
   1-12  appointed for the same term as a member of the commission who is
   1-13  appointed under Subsection (a).  For purposes of determining the
   1-14  existence of a quorum or a majority vote at a commission hearing,
   1-15  the presence or vote of an alternate commissioner constitutes the
   1-16  presence or vote of the commission member appointed by the entity
   1-17  that appointed the alternate.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 158.035, Local Government Code, is
   1-19  amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
   1-20        (d)  An alternate commissioner appointed under Section
   1-21  158.034(e) may submit a vote to the commission only during a
   1-22  commission hearing the alternate commissioner attends in place of a
   1-23  commissioner appointed under Section 158.034(a).
   1-24        (e)  This subsection applies only to a county with a
    2-1  population of 2.8 million or more.  Not later than the 10th day
    2-2  before the date on which the commission holds a meeting to consider
    2-3  any change to the civil service rules, the commission shall provide
    2-4  written notice of the meeting by mail to the sheriff and to any
    2-5  employee organization that:
    2-6              (1)  represents employees governed by the commission;
    2-7  and
    2-8              (2)  requests notice under this subsection.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.