By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1067
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to assignment pay for police officers in certain
1-2 municipalities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 143.114(b), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) In a municipality with a population of 1.2 million or
1-7 more, the municipality's governing body may authorize assignment
1-8 pay for:
1-9 (1) helicopter personnel;
1-10 (2) <,> bomb squad personnel;
1-11 (3) <,> special weapons and tactics personnel;
1-12 (4) <,>motorcycle personnel;
1-13 (5) <, and> dive team personnel; and
1-14 (6) any classified police officer who has received at
1-15 least 300 hours of continuous training approved by the Commission
1-16 on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education for a specified
1-17 area to which the officer is assigned.
1-18 (c) The assignment pay is in an amount and is payable under
1-19 conditions set by ordinance and is in addition to the regular pay
1-20 received by members of the police department. The head of the
1-21 police department is not eligible for the assignment pay authorized
1-22 by this section.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.