1-1     By:  Ramsay (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief)               H.B. No. 2663
 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 13, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to permitting a commissioners court to authorize payment
1-10     of certain continuing education expenses incurred by elected county
1-11     and precinct officers.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 152, Local Government Code,
1-14     is amended by adding Section 152.907 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 152.907.  CONTINUING EDUCATION EXPENSES FOR COUNTY AND
1-16     PRECINCT OFFICERS.  The commissioners court of a county may
1-17     authorize payment of reasonable continuing education expenses
1-18     incurred by a county or precinct officer if the expenses are
1-19     related to the officer's official duties, including expenses
1-20     incurred by the officer between the general election at which the
1-21     officer is elected and the beginning of the officer's term of
1-22     office.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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