By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 557
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to overtime compensation for certain municipal police
 1-3     department officers and civilian employees.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 142, Local Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Section 142.012 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 142.012.  OVERTIME COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN POLICE
 1-8     DEPARTMENT OFFICERS AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.  (a)  This section
 1-9     applies only to a municipality with a population of one million or
1-10     more that has not adopted Chapter 143.
1-11           (b)  Subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
1-12     (29 U.S.C.  Section 201 et seq.), a municipality may but is not
1-13     required to establish a system under which compensation is paid or
1-14     compensatory time off is allowed for overtime worked by the
1-15     following officers and employees of the municipality's police
1-16     department:
1-17                 (1)  a police officer who has a rank above the rank of
1-18     captain and whose appointment to the officer's current rank was not
1-19     based at least in part on the officer's performance on a
1-20     competitive examination; or
1-21                 (2)  a civilian who receives a salary greater than the
1-22     lowest base salary that the municipality pays a captain and whose
1-23     appointment to the civilian's current position was not based at
1-24     least in part on the civilian's performance on a competitive
1-25     examination.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.  The
 2-2     change in law made by this Act applies beginning with the first
 2-3     full pay period that begins on or after that date.