1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 1689 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 28, 1995; May 1, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; May 4, 1995, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; 1-5 May 4, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the appointment of certain officers and employees of 1-9 the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 411.0071 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 411.0071. DIRECT APPOINTMENT TO KEY POSITIONS BY 1-14 DIRECTOR. (a) The director may designate as a key position a 1-15 position in the department that involves working directly with the 1-16 director or working on a special assignment in the department. 1-17 (b) The director may directly appoint a person to a position 1-18 designated as a key position under Subsection (a) under criteria 1-19 determined solely by the director. The director's appointment of a 1-20 person to a key position or transfer of a person from a key 1-21 position to another position for which the person is qualified is 1-22 not subject to Section 411.007, 411.0075, or 411.0076. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *