By:  Rose                                                         H.B. No. 3409



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the application of the municipal civil service law for 
firefighters and police officers to certain municipalities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 143.002, Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 143.002.  MUNICIPALITIES COVERED BY CHAPTER.  This 
chapter applies only to a municipality:
		(1)  that:                                                                    
			(A)  has a population of 10,000 or more according 
to the most recent federal census updated annually;
			(B)  has a paid fire department and police 
department; and                 
			(C)  has voted to adopt this chapter or the law 
codified by this chapter; or
		(2)  whose election to adopt this chapter and whose 
acts subsequent to that election were validated by the law enacted 
by House Bill 822, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 
1993.
	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.