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.
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