By Siebert                                            H.B. No. 1280
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the location of entrance examinations for beginning
 1-3     positions in fire or police departments.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 143.025(d), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  Examinations for beginning positions in the fire or
 1-8     police department may be held at different locations if each
 1-9     applicant takes the same examination and is examined in the
1-10     presence of other applicants.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-12     applies only to an entrance examination that is held on or after
1-13     the effective date of this Act.  An entrance examination that is
1-14     held before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
1-15     in effect on the day the examination was held, and the former law
1-16     is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.