TO: | Honorable Frank Madla, Chair, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB1166 by Barrientos (Relating to conditions of employment for a peace officer or a detention officer employed by certain sheriff's departments.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Local Government Code to authorize certain counties to meet and confer with a bargaining committee to consider conditions of employment for peace officers and detention officers employed by the sheriff's department. Provisions of the bill would establish the procedures and minimum requirements of the meet and confer process. The bill would take effect September 1, 2003.
Travis County is the only county that currently meets the applicability criteria set out in the bill.
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LBB Staff: | JK, DLBa
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