By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1013
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to complaints against police officers and fire fighters.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 614.021, Government Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 614.021. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter
1-6 applies only to a complaint against<:>
1-7 <(1)> a law enforcement officer of the State of Texas,
1-8 including an officer of the Department of Public Safety or of the
1-9 Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, or<;>
1-10 <(2)> a fire fighter <who is not covered by a civil
1-11 service statute; or>
1-12 <(3) a police officer who is not covered by a civil
1-13 service statute>.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.