1-1     By:  Staples (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)                 H.B. No. 2971
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to certain training and licensing requirements for
1-10     appointment as a county jailer.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 415.054, Government Code, is amended by
1-13     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-14     follows:
1-15           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] person may
1-16     not be appointed as a county jailer, except on a temporary basis,
1-17     unless the person has satisfactorily completed a preparatory
1-18     program of training in the operation of a county jail at a school
1-19     operated or licensed by the commission.  If a county jailer
1-20     appointed on a temporary basis does not satisfactorily complete the
1-21     program, as prescribed by the commission, before one year after the
1-22     date that the person is originally appointed, the person shall be
1-23     removed from the position.  A temporary employment may not exceed
1-24     one year and may not be renewed, except that not earlier than one
1-25     year after a person is removed under this subsection the sheriff
1-26     may petition the commission for reinstatement of the person to
1-27     temporary employment.
1-28           (d)  A person trained and certified by the Texas Department
1-29     of Criminal Justice to serve as a corrections officer in that
1-30     agency's institutional or state jail division is not required to
1-31     complete the training requirements of this section to be appointed
1-32     a part-time county jailer.  Examinations under Section 415.056 and
1-33     psychological and physical examinations under Section 415.057 shall
1-34     apply.
1-35           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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