By Moncrief                                     S.B. No. 1404

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain conditions of employment for firefighters and

 1-3     police officers in certain municipalities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 143.301, Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 143.301. MUNICIPALITIES COVERED BY SUBCHAPTER. This

 1-8     subchapter applies only to a municipality with a population of

 1-9     440,000 [460,000] or more that operates under a city manager form

1-10     of government.  This subchapter does not apply to a municipality:

1-11                 (1)  that has adopted Chapter 174 (The Fire and Police

1-12     Employee Relations Act);  or

1-13                 (2)  to which Subchapter H applies.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.