Amend CSSB 1074 on 3rd Reading by adding the following
appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering the
existing SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
      SECTION ____. (a) Section 143.027, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 143.027.  PROBATIONARY PERIOD.  (a)  Except as provided
by Subsection (b), a <A> person appointed to a beginning position
in the fire or police department must serve a probationary period
of one year beginning on that person's date of employment as a fire
fighter, police officer, or academy trainee.
      (b)  In a municipality with a population of less than 1.5
million, a person who is appointed to a beginning position in the
police department and who has not been commissioned as a peace
officer in this state before that appointment must serve a
probationary period of 18 months rather than the 12-month period
described by Subsection (a), with the purpose of the extended
probationary period being to determine whether the person is in
compliance with the employing department's policy on racial
profiling established as required by Article 2.132, Code of
Criminal Procedure.  A person's probation period begins on that
person's date of employment as a police officer or academy trainee.
      (c) <(b)>  During a fire fighter's or police officer's
probationary period, the department head shall discharge the person
and remove the person from the payroll if the person's was not
regular and was not made in accordance with this chapter or the
commission rules.
      (d) <(c)>  During a fire fighter's or a police officer's
probationary period, the person may not be prohibited from joining
or required to join and employee organization.  Joining or not
joining an employee organization is not a ground for retaining or
not retaining a fire fighter or police officer serving a
probationary period.
      (e) <(d)>  A fire fighter or police officer who was appointed
in substantial compliance with this chapter with this chapter and
who serves the entire probationary period automatically becomes a
full-fledged civil service employee and has full civil service
protection.
      (b)  The change in law made by this section to Section
143.027, Local Government Code, regarding the probationary period
of certain police officers in a municipality with a population of
less than 1.5 million applies only to the probationary period of a
person appointed to a beginning position in a police department on
or after the effective date of this Act.  The probationary period
of a person appointed to a beginning position in a police
department before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this
Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.