1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain training and licensing requirements for
1-3 appointment as a county jailer.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 415.054, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] person may
1-9 not be appointed as a county jailer, except on a temporary basis,
1-10 unless the person has satisfactorily completed a preparatory
1-11 program of training in the operation of a county jail at a school
1-12 operated or licensed by the commission. If a county jailer
1-13 appointed on a temporary basis does not satisfactorily complete the
1-14 program, as prescribed by the commission, before one year after the
1-15 date that the person is originally appointed, the person shall be
1-16 removed from the position. A temporary employment may not exceed
1-17 one year and may not be renewed, except that not earlier than one
1-18 year after a person is removed under this subsection the sheriff
1-19 may petition the commission for reinstatement of the person to
1-20 temporary employment.
1-21 (d) A person trained and certified by the Texas Department
1-22 of Criminal Justice to serve as a corrections officer in that
1-23 agency's institutional or state jail division is not required to
1-24 complete the training requirements of this section to be appointed
2-1 a part-time county jailer. Examinations under Section 415.056 and
2-2 psychological and physical examinations under Section 415.057 shall
2-3 apply.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the House on May
11, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor