Amend CSHB 2730 (House Committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 411.007, Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(e)  An officer or employee of the department may not be 
discharged without just cause.  The director shall determine 
whether an officer or employee is to be discharged.  An officer or 
employee ordered discharged may appeal to the State Office of 
Administrative Hearings [commission], and during the appeal the 
officer or employee shall be suspended without pay.  Except as 
provided by Subsection (f), the department may not discharge, 
suspend, or demote a commissioned officer except for the isolation 
of a specific commission rule.  If the department discharges, 
suspends, or demotes an officer, the department shall deliver to 
the officer a written statement giving the reasons for the action 
taken.  The written statement must point out each commission rule 
alleged to have been violated by the officer and must describe the 
alleged acts of the officer that the department contends are in 
violation of the commission rules.
	(f)  The commission shall establish necessary policies and 
procedures for the appointment, promotion, reduction, suspension, 
and discharge of all employees.  A discharged officer or employee is 
entitled, on application to the commission, to a public hearing 
before the State Office of Administrative Hearings. [commission,]  
A proceeding under this section is a contested case governed by 
Chapter 2001, Government Code, subject to judicial review by a 
Travis County district court under the substantial evidence 
standard of review, [who shall affirm or set aside the discharge.  
The commission shall affirm or set aside a discharge on the basis of 
the evidence presented.  If the commission affirms the discharge, 
the discharged officer may seek judicial review, not later than the 
90th day after the date the commission affirms the discharge, in a 
district court under the substantial evidence standard of review,] 
and the officer remains suspended without pay while the case is 
under judicial review.  A noncommissioned employee inducted into 
the service of the department is on probation for the first one year 
of service, and an officer is on probation from the date the person 
is inducted into the service of the department until the 
anniversary of the date the person is commissioned.  At any time 
during the probationary period, a person may be discharged without 
the public hearing provided for by this subsection if the director, 
with the advice and consent of the commission, finds the person to 
be unsuitable for the work.