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By:  Gallegos                                                     S.B. No. 1686
	(In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2003; March 20, 2003, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 
Relations; April 30, 2003, reported adversely, with favorable 
Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; 
April 30, 2003, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1686                                   By:  Gallegos


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the training required for a person appointed as a county 
jailer.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 1701.310, Occupations Code, is amended 
by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
	(f)  The commission may require that a person appointed as a 
county jailer in a county with a population of 500,000 or more must 
complete 160 hours of commission-approved training not later than 
the second anniversary after the date the person was appointed.  The 
160 hours may include the preparatory training in Subsection (a).
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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