By Bailey                                       H.B. No. 2755

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to prohibiting a municipal management district from

 1-3     employing and commissioning peace officers.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 375, Local Government Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 375.098 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 375.098.  PEACE OFFICERS.  Notwithstanding any other

 1-8     law, a district may not employ or commission peace officers.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.