By Mowery H.B. No. 474
75R2210 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to judicial review of certain local civil service
1-3 commission decisions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.012(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) An appeal under this section is under the substantial
1-8 evidence rule [by trial de novo], and the judgment of the district
1-9 court is appealable as in other civil cases.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 158.037(b), Local Government Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) An appeal under this section is under the substantial
1-13 evidence rule [by trial de novo], and the judgment of the district
1-14 court is appealable as in other civil cases.
1-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-16 applies only to the scope of judicial review of a final decision of
1-17 a local civil service commission that becomes final on or after
1-18 that date. The scope of judicial review of a final decision of a
1-19 local civil service commission that becomes final before that date
1-20 is governed by the law in effect on the date the decision becomes
1-21 final, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.