By Siebert H.B. No. 1280 76R1712 KLA-D 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.