79R4900 KEG-D

By:  Corte                                                        H.B. No. 2341



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the administration of promotional examinations to 
certain firefighters and police officers who are members of the 
armed forces on active duty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 143.032(b), Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Each eligible promotional candidate shall be given an 
identical examination in the presence of the other eligible 
promotional candidates, except that an eligible promotional 
candidate who is serving on active military duty is entitled to take 
the examination outside of the presence of and at a different time 
than the other candidates.  The commission may adopt rules under 
Subsection (a) providing for the efficient administration of 
promotional examinations to eligible promotional candidates who 
are members of the armed forces serving on active military duty.  
The rules shall require that, if a candidate serving on active 
military duty takes a promotional examination outside the presence 
of other candidates and passes the examination, the candidate's 
name shall be included in the eligibility list of names of 
promotional candidates who took and passed the identical 
examination.
	SECTION 2.  Section 143.028(c), Local Government Code, is 
repealed.          
	SECTION 3.  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.