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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.