By:  Reyna, Castro, Gonzales                                      H.B. No. 150



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the eligibility of a person to be appointed to serve on 
certain civil service commissions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 143.006, Local Government Code, is 
amended by adding Subsections (c-1), (c-2), and (c-3) to read as 
follows:
	(c-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c)(5), the 
municipality's chief  executive may reappoint a commission member 
to consecutive terms.  A commission member may not be reappointed to 
more than a third consecutive term unless the member's 
reappointment to a fourth or subsequent consecutive term is 
confirmed by a two-thirds majority of all the members of the 
municipality's governing body.
	(c-2)  Subsection (c)(5) does not prohibit the 
municipality's chief executive from appointing a former commission 
member to the commission if the only public office held by the 
former member within the preceding three years is membership on:
		(1)  the commission; or                                                
		(2)  the commission and the municipality's civil 
service board for employees other than police officers and 
firefighters through a joint appointment to the commission and 
board.
	(c-3)  Subsections (c-1) and (c-2) do not apply to a 
municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.