By Solis of Cameron, Uresti, Capelo, Homer, H.B. No. 1078 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to restoration of benefits to a fire fighter or police 1-3 officer on reinstatement to a position as a result of a successful 1-4 appeal of a disciplinary suspension. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 143.053(f), Local Government Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (f) If the commission finds that the period of disciplinary 1-9 suspension should be reduced, the commission may order a reduction 1-10 in the period of suspension. If the suspended fire fighter or 1-11 police officer is restored to the position or class of service from 1-12 which the person was suspended, the fire fighter or police officer 1-13 is entitled to: 1-14 (1) full compensation for the actual time lost as a 1-15 result of the suspension at the rate of pay provided for the 1-16 position or class of service from which the person was suspended; 1-17 and 1-18 (2) restoration of or credit for any other benefits 1-19 lost as a result of the suspension, including sick leave, vacation 1-20 leave, and service credit in a retirement system. Standard payroll 1-21 deductions, if any, for retirement and other benefits restored 1-22 shall be made from the compensation paid, and the municipality 1-23 shall make its standard corresponding contributions, if any, to the 1-24 retirement system or other applicable benefit systems. 1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-1 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only 2-2 to an appeal of a disciplinary suspension in which the decision of 2-3 a civil service commission or of an independent third-party hearing 2-4 examiner is rendered on or after the effective date of this Act. 2-5 An appeal of a disciplinary action in which the decision of a civil 2-6 service commission or of an independent third-party hearing 2-7 examiner is rendered before the effective date of this Act is 2-8 governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective 2-9 date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that 2-10 purpose. 2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.