1-1 By: Solomons (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 1294 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997; 1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported favorably, as 1-5 amended, by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Galloway 1-8 Amend H.B. No. 1294 in SECTION 1 of the bill, proposed 1-9 Section 81.0025(f), Local Government Code, by striking "250,000" 1-10 and substituting "225,000". 1-11 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-12 AN ACT 1-13 relating to continuing education requirements for county 1-14 commissioners. 1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-16 SECTION 1. Section 81.0025, Local Government Code, is 1-17 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-18 (f) In addition to the exceptions under Subsection (e), this 1-19 section does not apply to a county commissioner who serves in a 1-20 county with a population of 250,000 or more and who: 1-21 (1) has served continuously for 12 years or more; and 1-22 (2) in the 12-month period, completes at least three 1-23 semester credit hours of graduate-level course work in a field of 1-24 study directly related to county government with a grade of B or 1-25 higher in each course completed during the period. 1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998. 1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-32 * * * * *