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.