By Talton H.B. No. 2443
75R7471 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to classification and appointment of firefighters and
1-3 police officers in certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 143.035(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) After considering any alternate promotional system
1-8 recommended by [On the recommendation of] the head of the police
1-9 department or [and] a majority vote of the sworn police officers in
1-10 the department, the commission may adopt an alternate promotional
1-11 system to select persons to occupy nonentry level positions other
1-12 than positions that are filled by appointment by the department
1-13 head. The promotional system must comply with the requirements
1-14 prescribed by this section.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 143.027(a), Local Government Code, is
1-16 amended to read as follows:
1-17 (a) A person appointed to a beginning position in the fire
1-18 or police department must serve a probationary period of one year
1-19 beginning on that person's date of employment as a fire fighter,
1-20 police officer, or academy trainee or an alternative period as
1-21 adopted by the commission.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.