By Ratliff                                             S.B. No. 534
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring citizenship as a prerequisite to obtaining a
 1-3     license from the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards
 1-4     and Education.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 415, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 415.0591 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 415.0591.  CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT.  (a)  A person must
 1-9     be a United States citizen to obtain a license to be an officer,
1-10     county jailer, or public security officer.  The commission shall
1-11     establish procedures for proving citizenship.
1-12           (b)  A person who holds a license on September 1, 1999, is
1-13     not subject to Subsection (a) while that license is in effect.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.