By Gallegos S.B. No. 1013
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1013:
By Bailey C.S.S.B. No. 1013
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to complaints against police officers and fire fighters.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 614.021, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 614.021. Applicability of Subchapter. This subchapter
1-7 applies only to a complaint against:
1-8 (1) a law enforcement officer of the State of Texas,
1-9 including an officer of the Department of Public Safety or of the
1-10 Texas Alcoholic Beverage commission,
1-11 (2) a fire fighter <who is not covered by a civil>
1-12 <service statute>; or
1-13 (3) a police officer <who is not covered by a civil>
1-14 <service statute>.
1-15 SECTION 2. 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,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.