76R12157 E                           
         By Hinojosa                                           H.B. No. 1132
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1132:
         By Hodge                                          C.S.H.B. No. 1132
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain municipal firefighters and police officers
 1-3     entitled to additional wages.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 141, Local Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
 1-7            SUBCHAPTER C. ADDITIONAL WAGES FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPAL
 1-8                      FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS
 1-9           Sec. 141.051.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
1-10                 (1)  "Additional language skill" means fluency in a
1-11     language other than English.
1-12                 (2)  "Firefighter" means a full-time member of a
1-13     municipal fire department who performs:
1-14                       (A)  fire suppression;
1-15                       (B)  fire prevention;
1-16                       (C)  fire training;
1-17                       (D)  fire safety education;
1-18                       (E)  fire maintenance;
1-19                       (F)  fire communications;
1-20                       (G)  fire medical emergency technology;
1-21                       (H)  fire photography; or
1-22                       (I)  fire administration.
1-23                 (3)  "Police officer" means a member of a municipal
1-24     police department who is a licensed peace officer under Section
 2-1     415.052, Government Code.
 2-2           Sec. 141.052.  ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL WAGES FOR CERTAIN
 2-3     SERVICES.  A firefighter or police officer may receive appropriate
 2-4     additional wages if:
 2-5                 (1)  the firefighter or police officer provides a
 2-6     service to the department that uses an additional language skill
 2-7     possessed by the firefighter or police officer; and
 2-8                 (2)  the additional language skill used is outside the
 2-9     course and scope of the firefighter or police officer's position as
2-10     indicated by the firefighter or police officer's official job
2-11     description.
2-12           Sec. 141.053.  DEPARTMENTAL GUIDELINES.  The fire or police
2-13     department may establish guidelines to determine:
2-14                 (1)  the types of additional language skills and the
2-15     levels of fluency in additional language skills that require a
2-16     department to pay additional wages under this section; and
2-17                 (2)  the appropriate levels of additional wages.
2-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.