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.

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