By:  Barrientos                               S.B. No. 346

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the training of certain law enforcement officers and

 1-2     county jailers.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 415.032, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  As part of the minimum curriculum requirements for

 1-7     preparatory courses and programs, the commission shall require

 1-8     courses and programs of instruction on federal and state statutes

 1-9     that relate to employment issues affecting officers and county

1-10     jailers, including statutes that govern:

1-11                 (1)  civil service;

1-12                 (2)  compensation, including overtime compensation,

1-13     and vacation time;

1-14                 (3)  personnel files and other employee records;

1-15                 (4)  management-employee relations in law enforcement

1-16     organizations;

1-17                 (5)  work-related injuries;

1-18                 (6)  complaints and investigations of employee

1-19     misconduct; and

1-20                 (7)  disciplinary actions and the appeal of

1-21     disciplinary actions.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.