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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