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.
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