By Whitmire                                            S.B. No. 755
       74R554 PEP-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to procedures for certain employment matters concerning
    1-3  sheriff's department employees of certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 158.035(c), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  In a county with a population of 2.8 million or more, a
    1-8  quorum of the commission <at least three commissioners> shall
    1-9  preside at the hearing <and vote on the commission's final
   1-10  decision> in any case involving termination, demotion, or recovery
   1-11  of back pay.  The commission's decision is considered in favor of
   1-12  the employee unless a majority of commissioners at the hearing vote
   1-13  to terminate, demote, or deny a recovery of back pay.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.