By McReynolds                                         H.B. No. 2314
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirements a person must meet to serve as a
 1-3     director of fire fighters' and police officers' civil service.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 143.012(b), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  A person appointed as director must meet each
 1-8     requirement for appointment to the commission prescribed by Section
 1-9     143.006(c), except that in a municipality with a population of less
1-10     than 1.5 million, the person is not required to meet the
1-11     [three-year] local residency requirement.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.