By Ratliff S.B. No. 534 76R123 KLA-D 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.