By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 1089
75R4023 MRB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the promotional system used in certain police
1-3 departments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 143.035(b) and (f), Local Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) After the commission receives a [On the] recommendation
1-8 for an alternate promotional system from [of] the head of the
1-9 police department or receives a petition that recommends an
1-10 alternate promotional system and that is signed by at least 20
1-11 percent of the sworn police officers in the department and after an
1-12 election is held and the issue is approved at the election as
1-13 provided by this section [a majority vote of the sworn police
1-14 officers in the department], the commission may adopt an alternate
1-15 promotional system to select persons to occupy nonentry level
1-16 positions other than positions that are filled by appointment by
1-17 the department head. The promotional system must be a system
1-18 recommended as provided by this subsection and must comply with the
1-19 requirements prescribed by this section.
1-20 (f) The revised promotional system must be approved by a
1-21 simple majority vote of the sworn police officers who vote in the
1-22 election at which the issue is submitted to a vote [voting]. A
1-23 defeated promotional system amendment may not be placed on a ballot
1-24 for a vote by the sworn police officers for at least 12 months
2-1 after the date the prior election was held, but this provision does
2-2 not apply if the head of the department recommends a different
2-3 proposal to the commission.
2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.