By Barrientos                                         S.B. No. 1114
       74R6032 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of the workforce in certain fire and
    1-3  police departments.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 143.090 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 143.090.  LOCAL CONTROL OF WORKFORCE COMPOSITION IN
    1-8  CERTAIN FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.  (a)  This section applies
    1-9  only to a municipality with a population of 460,000 or more that
   1-10  operates under a city manager form of government.  This section
   1-11  does not apply to a municipality:
   1-12              (1)  that has adopted Chapter 174 (The Fire and Police
   1-13  Employee Relations Act); or
   1-14              (2)  to which Subchapter H applies.
   1-15        (b)  A municipality may implement a program to ensure that
   1-16  the composition of the workforce of the paid fire fighters or
   1-17  police officers in its fire department or police department, as
   1-18  appropriate, reasonably represents the demographic composition of
   1-19  the workforce of the municipality.
   1-20        (c)  The governing body of the municipality shall ensure that
   1-21  the requirements imposed by a program implemented under Subsection
   1-22  (b) are not lower than the requirements set by this chapter for the
   1-23  appointment or promotion of a paid fire fighter or police officer.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.