By Staples H.B. No. 2971
76R1556 AJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the training required to be appointed as a county
1-3 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 and is not
2-1 required to be licensed by the commission under Section 415.051 to
2-2 be appointed a part-time county jailer.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-10 Amend H.B. 2971 as follows:
2-11 (1) On page 1, line 24, strike "and is not required to be
2-12 licensed by the commission under Section 415.051".
2-13 (2) At the end of Subsection (d), add "Examinations under
2-14 Section 415.056 and Psychological and Physical Examination under
2-15 Section 415.057 shall apply."
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