By: Montford S.B. No. 1689 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the appointment of certain officers and employees of 1-2 the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 411.0071 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 411.0071. DIRECT APPOINTMENT TO KEY POSITIONS BY 1-7 DIRECTOR. (a) The director may designate as a key position a 1-8 position in the department that involves working directly with the 1-9 director or working on a special assignment in the department. 1-10 (b) The director may directly appoint a person to a position 1-11 designated as a key position under Subsection (a) under criteria 1-12 determined solely by the director. The director's appointment of a 1-13 person to a key position or transfer of a person from a key 1-14 position to another position for which the person is qualified is 1-15 not subject to Section 411.007, 411.0075, or 411.0076. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.