By Duncan S.B. No. 1633
75R6925 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the members of the Commission on Law Enforcement
1-3 Officer Standards and Education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 415.004(a) and (b), Government Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The commission is composed of 12 [nine] members
1-8 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the
1-9 senate. The governor shall make the appointments without regard to
1-10 the race, creed, sex, religion, or national origin of the
1-11 appointees. A member must be a resident of this state.
1-12 (b) Two [Three] members must be a sheriff or[,] constable,
1-13 and one member must be a full-time municipal law enforcement
1-14 training coordinator. The term of one of those three members must
1-15 expire every two years. Three members must be municipal chiefs of
1-16 police, and the term of one of those three members must expire
1-17 every two years. One chief of police must be the chief of police of
1-18 a municipality with a population of at least 250,000. One chief of
1-19 police must be the chief of police of a municipality with a
1-20 population greater than 25,000 and less than 250,000. One chief of
1-21 police must be the chief of police of a municipality with a
1-22 population of 25,000 or less [or chief of police]. Three members
1-23 must be persons licensed under this chapter, two of those three
1-24 members [whom] must be peace officers who when appointed hold
2-1 nonsupervisory positions with a law enforcement agency, and the
2-2 term of one of those three members must expire every two years. A
2-3 licensed member must have been licensed for the five consecutive
2-4 years preceding the date of the member's appointment. Three
2-5 members must be members of the general public, and the term of one
2-6 of those three members must expire every two years.
2-7 SECTION 2. (a) For the purpose of coming into compliance
2-8 with Sections 415.004(a) and (b), Government Code, as amended by
2-9 this Act, the governor shall appoint three additional members to
2-10 the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education
2-11 in accordance with this section.
2-12 (b) The governor shall appoint a full-time municipal law
2-13 enforcement training coordinator, the chief of police of a
2-14 municipality with a population of at least 250,000, and the chief
2-15 of police of a municipality with a population greater than 25,000
2-16 and less than 250,000.
2-17 (c) The governor shall appoint the full-time municipal law
2-18 enforcement training coordinator to a term expiring on August 30,
2-19 1999. The governor shall appoint the chief of police of the
2-20 municipality with a population of at least 250,000 to a term
2-21 expiring on August 30, 2001. The governor shall appoint the chief
2-22 of police of the municipality with a population greater than 25,000
2-23 and less than 250,000 to a term expiring August 30, 1999. As those
2-24 terms expire, the governor shall appoint members to full six-year
2-25 terms.
2-26 SECTION 3. (a) Notwithstanding Section 415.004(c),
2-27 Government Code, and for the purpose of coming into compliance with
3-1 Sections 415.004(a) and (b), Government Code, as amended by this
3-2 Act, the governor shall appoint members to the Commission on Law
3-3 Enforcement Officer Standards and Education as current terms
3-4 expire, in accordance with this section.
3-5 (b) When appointing members to the positions of the two
3-6 members who are commission licensees who are not sheriffs,
3-7 constables, or chiefs of police and whose terms expire on August
3-8 30, 2001, the governor shall appoint one member who is a commission
3-9 licensee who is not a sheriff, constable, or chief of police to a
3-10 term expiring on August 30, 2005, and one member who is a
3-11 commission licensee who is not a sheriff, constable, or chief of
3-12 police to a term expiring on August 30, 2007. As those terms
3-13 expire, the governor shall appoint members to full six-year terms.
3-14 (c) When appointing a member to the position of the member
3-15 who is a commission licensee who is not a sheriff, constable, or
3-16 chief of police and whose term expires on August 30, 2003, the
3-17 governor shall appoint a member to a term expiring on August 30,
3-18 2009. As that term expires, the governor shall appoint a member
3-19 to a full six-year term.
3-20 (d) When appointing members to the positions of the three
3-21 public members whose terms expire on August 30, 1999, the governor
3-22 shall appoint one public member to a term expiring on August 30,
3-23 2001, one public member to a term expiring on August 30, 2003, and
3-24 one public member to a term expiring on August 30, 2005. As those
3-25 terms expire, the governor shall appoint members to full six-year
3-26 terms.
3-27 (e) When appointing members to the positions of the two
4-1 members who are sheriffs, constables, or chiefs of police and whose
4-2 terms expire on August 30, 1997, the governor shall appoint one
4-3 sheriff or constable to a term expiring August 30, 2003, and a
4-4 chief of police of a municipality with a population of 25,000 or
4-5 less to a term expiring August 30, 2003. As those terms expire, the
4-6 governor shall appoint members to full six-year terms.
4-7 (f) When appointing a member to the position of the member
4-8 who is a sheriff, constable, or chief of police and whose term
4-9 expires on August 30, 2001, the governor shall appoint a sheriff or
4-10 constable to a term expiring August 30, 2007. As that term expires,
4-11 the governor shall appoint a member to a full six-year term.
4-12 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect August 29, 1997.
4-13 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
4-19 terms, and it is so enacted.