By Hamric H.B. No. 2263
76R3340 AJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of certain sheriff's department civil
1-3 service panels.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.035(c), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) In a county with a population of 2.8 million or more, a
1-8 panel of three commissioners shall preside at the hearing and vote
1-9 on the commission's final decision in any case involving
1-10 termination, demotion, or recovery of back pay. A panel's decision
1-11 is the final decision of the commission for purposes of Sections
1-12 158.0351 and 158.037. The commission shall adopt rules prescribing
1-13 the commission's procedures for assigning members to a panel. [A
1-14 panel may not include more than one member who was appointed to the
1-15 commission by the same individual appointing authority.]
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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.