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By: Gallegos S.B. No. 272
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to complaints against police officers and fire fighters.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 614.021, Government Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 614.021. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. (a) This
1-6 subchapter applies only to a complaint against:
1-7 (1) a law enforcement officer of the State of Texas,
1-8 including an officer of the Department of Public Safety or of the
1-9 Texas Alcoholic Beverage commission;
1-10 (2) a fire fighter [who is not covered by a civil
1-11 service statute]; or
1-12 (3) a police officer [who is not covered by a civil
1-13 service statute].
1-14 (b) In this subchapter, "police officer" means a peace
1-15 officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or
1-16 other law, who is employed by a political subdivision of the state.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.