By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 2536
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the definition of a disciplinary action against a
 1-3     police officer.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Amend Section 143.003, Local Government Code, to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 143.003.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
 1-8                 (1)  "Commission" means the Fire Fighters' and Police
 1-9     Officers' Civil Service Commission.
1-10                 (2)  "Department head" means the director of fire
1-11     fighters' and police officers' civil service.
1-12                 (3)  "Director" means the director of fire fighters'
1-13     and police officers' civil service.
1-14                 (4)  "Disciplinary action" means any action by the
1-15     department administered as a punishment for violating a
1-16     departmental rule or order.
1-17                 [(4)] (5)  "Fire fighter" means a member of a fire
1-18     department who was appointed in substantial compliance with this
1-19     chapter or who is entitled to civil service status under Section
1-20     143.005 or 143.084.  The term includes fire fighters who perform:
1-21                       (A)  fire suppression;
1-22                       (B)  fire prevention;
 2-1                       (C)  fire training;
 2-2                       (D)  fire safety education;
 2-3                       (E)  fire maintenance;
 2-4                       (F)  fire communications;
 2-5                       (G)  fire medical emergency technology;
 2-6                       (H)  fire photography; or
 2-7                       (I)  fire administration.
 2-8                 [(5)] (6)  "Police officer" means a member of a police
 2-9     department or other peace officer who was appointed in substantial
2-10     compliance with this chapter or who is entitled to civil service
2-11     status under Section 143.005, 143.084, or 143.103.
2-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
2-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.