By: Montford S.B. No. 1253
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to fire and police civil service.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsections (b), (c), and (d), Section 143.025,
1-4 Local Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-5 (b) An eligibility list for a beginning position in the fire
1-6 or police department may be created only as a result of a
1-7 competitive examination where more than one applicant is present
1-8 <held in the presence of each applicant for the position>. The
1-9 examination must be based on the person's knowledge of and
1-10 qualifications for fire fighting and work in the fire department or
1-11 for police work and work in the police department and must inquire
1-12 into the applicant's general education and mental ability. A
1-13 person may not be appointed to the fire or police department except
1-14 as a result of the examination.
1-15 (c) An applicant may <not> take an examination only where
1-16 more than one applicant <unless at least one other applicant taking
1-17 the examination> is present.
1-18 (d) Examinations for beginning positions in the fire or
1-19 police department may be held at different locations if each
1-20 applicant takes the same examination and more than one applicant
1-21 for the position is present <is examined in the presence of other
1-22 applicants>.
1-23 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.