1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 557
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2001; February 7, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; May 7, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 7, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 557                     By:  Cain
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to overtime compensation for certain municipal police
1-11     department officers and civilian employees.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Chapter 142, Local Government Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Section 142.012 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 142.012.  OVERTIME COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN POLICE
1-16     DEPARTMENT OFFICERS AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.  (a)  This section
1-17     applies only to a municipality with a population of one million or
1-18     more that has not adopted Chapter 143.
1-19           (b)  Subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
1-20     (29 U.S.C.  Section 201 et seq.), a municipality may but is not
1-21     required to establish a system under which compensation is paid or
1-22     compensatory time off is allowed for overtime worked by the
1-23     following officers and employees of the municipality's police
1-24     department:
1-25                 (1)  a police officer who has a rank above the rank of
1-26     captain and whose appointment to the officer's current rank was not
1-27     based at least in part on the officer's performance on a
1-28     competitive examination; or
1-29                 (2)  a civilian who receives a salary greater than the
1-30     lowest base salary that the municipality pays a captain and whose
1-31     appointment to the civilian's current position was not based at
1-32     least in part on the civilian's performance on a competitive
1-33     examination.
1-34           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.  The
1-35     change in law made by this Act applies beginning with the first
1-36     full pay period that begins on or after that date.
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