1-1     By:  Ratliff                                           S.B. No. 534
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1999; February 17, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 23, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 23, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to requiring citizenship as a prerequisite to obtaining a
 1-9     license from the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards
1-10     and Education.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 415, Government Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 415.0591 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 415.0591.  CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT.  (a)  A person must
1-15     be a United States citizen to obtain a license to be an officer,
1-16     county jailer, or public security officer.  The commission shall
1-17     establish procedures for proving citizenship.
1-18           (b)  A person who holds a license on September 1, 1999, is
1-19     not subject to Subsection (a) while that license is in effect.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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