1-1 By: McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 2314
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the requirements a person must meet to serve as a
1-9 director of fire fighters' and police officers' civil service.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 143.012(b), Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A person appointed as director must meet each
1-14 requirement for appointment to the commission prescribed by Section
1-15 143.006(c), except that in a municipality with a population of less
1-16 than 1.5 million, the person is not required to meet the
1-17 [three-year] local residency requirement.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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