1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 1253
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 16, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; May 10, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1253 By: Ellis
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to police and fire civil service.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsections (b), (c), and (d), Section 143.025,
1-13 Local Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-14 (b) An eligibility list for a beginning position in the fire
1-15 or police department may be created only as a result of a
1-16 competitive examination where more than one applicant is present
1-17 <held in the presence of each applicant for the position>. The
1-18 examination must be based on the person's knowledge of and
1-19 qualifications for fire fighting and work in the fire department or
1-20 for police work and work in the police department and must inquire
1-21 into the applicant's general education and mental ability. A
1-22 person may not be appointed to the fire or police department except
1-23 as a result of the examination.
1-24 (c) An applicant may <not> take an examination only where
1-25 more than one applicant <unless at least one other applicant taking
1-26 the examination> is present.
1-27 (d) Examinations for beginning positions in the fire or
1-28 police department may be held at different locations if each
1-29 applicant takes the same examination and more than one applicant
1-30 for the position is present <is examined in the presence of other
1-31 applicants>. If multiple test sites are used, the municipality
1-32 must:
1-33 (1) administer the examinations on the same date and
1-34 at approximately the same time;
1-35 (2) hold at least one of the examinations within the
1-36 boundaries of the municipality; and
1-37 (3) consolidate the test scores from all of the sites
1-38 into one eligibility list.
1-39 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-44 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-45 passage, and it is so enacted.
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