1-1           By:  Barrientos                                  S.B. No. 346

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1997; February 3, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; March 6, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 6, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the training of certain law enforcement officers and

 1-9     county jailers.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 415.032, Government Code, is amended by

1-12     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

1-13           (e)  As part of the minimum curriculum requirements for

1-14     preparatory courses and programs, the commission shall require

1-15     courses and programs of instruction on federal and state statutes

1-16     that relate to employment issues affecting officers and county

1-17     jailers, including statutes that govern:

1-18                 (1)  civil service;

1-19                 (2)  compensation, including overtime compensation,

1-20     and vacation time;

1-21                 (3)  personnel files and other employee records;

1-22                 (4)  management-employee relations in law enforcement

1-23     organizations;

1-24                 (5)  work-related injuries;

1-25                 (6)  complaints and investigations of employee

1-26     misconduct; and

1-27                 (7)  disciplinary actions and the appeal of

1-28     disciplinary actions.

1-29           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-30           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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