SRC-VRA S.B. 1600 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1600
By: Whitmire
Intergovernmental Relations
4/1/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, a police offer in certain municipalities is not required to
have completed five total years of service before taking the promotional
examination for Sergeant.  As proposed, S.B. 1600 requires a police
officer to have served a minimum of five years before taking the
promotional examination for Sergeant.     

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 143.031, Local Government Code, by adding
Subsection (d) to prohibit police officers, in a municipality with a
population of 1.5 million or more, from being eligible to take the
promotional examination for the rank of Sergeant until they have completed
at least five total years of service from their date(s) of hire.  Provides
that the five years of service required under this subsection need not be
continuous and may be a cumulative total from one or more dates of hire.