HBA-CMT, JEK H.B. 1184 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1184
By: Tillery
Urban Affairs
3/12/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, officers in the Dallas Police Department are required to flex
their work schedules whenever possible to accommodate the administration's
concerns regarding the utilization of overtime.  Conversely, police
administrators in the appointed ranks of the Dallas Police Department are
able to have overtime schedules and may eventually receive cash for the
compensatory time after a certain time period.  House Bill 1184 prohibits
the Dallas Police Department from paying overtime or time accumulation to
salaried management employees. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1184 amends the Local Government Code to prohibit an employee of
a police department, subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of
1938, from receiving compensation for overtime or compensatory time off if
the employee is a police officer who has a rank above the rank of captain
or is a civilian employee who receives a salary greater than the lowest
base salary that the municipality pays a captain, and the appointment to
the employee's current rank or position was not based at least in part on
performance on a competitive examination.  The provision applies only to a
municipality with a population of one million or more that has not adopted
the provisions for municipal civil service.    

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2001.