1-1 By: Solis of Cameron, et al. H.B. No. 1078 1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Madla) 1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999; 1-4 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-5 Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by 1-6 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to 1-7 printer.) 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to restoration of benefits to a fire fighter or police 1-11 officer on reinstatement to a position as a result of a successful 1-12 appeal of a disciplinary suspension. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 143.053(f), Local Government Code, is 1-15 amended to read as follows: 1-16 (f) If the commission finds that the period of disciplinary 1-17 suspension should be reduced, the commission may order a reduction 1-18 in the period of suspension. If the suspended fire fighter or 1-19 police officer is restored to the position or class of service from 1-20 which the person was suspended, the fire fighter or police officer 1-21 is entitled to: 1-22 (1) full compensation for the actual time lost as a 1-23 result of the suspension at the rate of pay provided for the 1-24 position or class of service from which the person was suspended; 1-25 and 1-26 (2) restoration of or credit for any other benefits 1-27 lost as a result of the suspension, including sick leave, vacation 1-28 leave, and service credit in a retirement system. Standard payroll 1-29 deductions, if any, for retirement and other benefits restored 1-30 shall be made from the compensation paid, and the municipality 1-31 shall make its standard corresponding contributions, if any, to the 1-32 retirement system or other applicable benefit systems. 1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-34 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-35 to an appeal of a disciplinary suspension in which the decision of 1-36 a civil service commission or of an independent third-party hearing 1-37 examiner is rendered on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-38 An appeal of a disciplinary action in which the decision of a civil 1-39 service commission or of an independent third-party hearing 1-40 examiner is rendered before the effective date of this Act is 1-41 governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective 1-42 date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that 1-43 purpose. 1-44 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-49 * * * * *