1-1 By: Gallegos S.B. No. 272
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 1997; January 27, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 17, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-6 February 17, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 272 By: Gallegos
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to complaints against police officers and fire fighters.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 614.021, Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 614.021. Applicability of Subchapter. This subchapter
1-15 applies only to a complaint against:
1-16 (1) a law enforcement officer of the State of Texas,
1-17 including an officer of the Department of Public Safety or of the
1-18 Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;
1-19 (2) a fire fighter [who is not covered by a civil
1-20 service statute]; or
1-21 (3) a police officer [who is not covered by a civil
1-22 service statute].
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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