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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