By Ramsay                                             H.B. No. 2663
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to permitting a commissioners court to authorize payment
 1-3     of certain continuing education expenses incurred by elected county
 1-4     and precinct officers.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 152, Local Government Code,
 1-7     is amended by adding Section 152.907 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 152.907.  CONTINUING EDUCATION EXPENSES FOR COUNTY AND
 1-9     PRECINCT OFFICERS.  The commissioners court of a county may
1-10     authorize payment of reasonable continuing education expenses
1-11     incurred by a county or precinct officer if the expenses are
1-12     related to the officer's official duties, including expenses
1-13     incurred by the officer between the general election at which the
1-14     officer is elected and the beginning of the officer's term of
1-15     office.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.