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By Gallego H.B. No. 3248
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of the Public Safety Commission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 411.003(b) and (c), Government Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The commission is composed of six [three] citizens of
1-7 this state appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of
1-8 the senate. Members must be selected because of their peculiar
1-9 qualifications for the position. Appointments to the commission
1-10 shall be made without regard to race, color, disability, sex,
1-11 religion, age, or national origin. In making an appointment the
1-12 governor shall consider, among other things, the person's knowledge
1-13 of laws, experience in the enforcement of law, honesty, integrity,
1-14 education, training, and executive ability.
1-15 (c) Members serve staggered six-year terms with the term of
1-16 two members [one member] expiring January 1 of each even-numbered
1-17 year.
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) In making the three new initial appointments
1-19 to the Public Safety Commission authorized by this Act, the
1-20 governor shall designate one member for a term expiring January 1,
1-21 1998, one member for a term expiring January 1, 2000, and one
1-22 member for a term expiring January 1, 2002.
1-23 (b) Until all members appointed under Subsection (a) of this
1-24 section have taken office, a quorum of the Public Safety Commission
2-1 is a majority of the members of the commission who have qualified
2-2 for office.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-4 SECTION 4. 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.