1-1 By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1014 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 9, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 30, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Gallegos 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1014 as follows: 1-8 On page 1, line 8 (Committee printing page 1, line 19) following 1-9 "department," insert the words: which may be vetoed by the head of 1-10 the police department, 1-11 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-12 AN ACT 1-13 relating to promotional systems in certain police departments. 1-14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-15 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 143.035, Local Government 1-16 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-17 (b) On the recommendation of the head of the police 1-18 department, or on receipt of a petition signed by at least 20 1-19 percent of the sworn police officers in the department, and after a 1-20 simple majority vote of the sworn police officers in the department 1-21 who vote in the election at which the issue is submitted to a vote, 1-22 the commission may adopt an alternate promotional system to select 1-23 persons to occupy nonentry level positions other than positions 1-24 that are filled by appointment by the department head. The 1-25 promotional system must be a system suggested by the head of the 1-26 police department or the petitioning police officers, as 1-27 applicable, and must comply with the requirements prescribed by 1-28 this section. 1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-35 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-36 * * * * *