1-1 By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1067
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 14, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 5, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Whitmire
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1067 as follows:
1-8 On page 1, lines 15-18 (committee printing page 1, lines
1-9 29-32), delete Subdivision (6) and insert a new subdivision as
1-10 follows:
1-11 (6) police officers who perform specialized functions
1-12 in their respective departments, including but not limited to
1-13 career patrol officers.
1-14 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-15 AN ACT
1-16 relating to assignment pay for police officers in certain
1-17 municipalities.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 143.114, Local Government
1-20 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-21 (b) In a municipality with a population of 1.2 million or
1-22 more, the municipality's governing body may authorize assignment
1-23 pay for:
1-24 (1) helicopter personnel;
1-25 (2) <,> bomb squad personnel;
1-26 (3) <,> special weapons and tactics personnel;
1-27 (4) <,> motorcycle personnel;
1-28 (5) <, and> dive team personnel; and
1-29 (6) any classified police officer who has received at
1-30 least 300 hours of continuous training approved by the Commission
1-31 on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education for a specified
1-32 area to which the officer is assigned.
1-33 (c) The assignment pay is in an amount and is payable under
1-34 conditions set by ordinance and is in addition to the regular pay
1-35 received by members of the police department. The head of the
1-36 police department is not eligible for the assignment pay authorized
1-37 by this section.
1-38 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44 passage, and it is so enacted.
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