84R11034 TSR-F
 
  By: Alvarado H.B. No. 2785
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to notice requirements for certain meetings or hearings in
  fire or police departments in certain municipalities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 143.1014, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 143.1014.  NOTICE REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN MEETINGS OR
  HEARINGS.  (a)  The department shall provide to a fire fighter or
  police officer notice of the time and location of a meeting or
  hearing not later than the 48th hour before the hour on which the
  meeting or hearing is held if the meeting or hearing is:
               (1)  related to an internal departmental or other
  municipal investigation of the fire fighter or police officer at
  which the fire fighter or police officer is required or entitled to
  be present, including an interrogation under Section 143.123;
               (2)  related to a grievance filed by the fire fighter or
  police officer under Sections 143.127 through 143.134; or
               (3)  an opportunity to respond to charges against the
  fire fighter or police officer before the department terminates the
  fire fighter's or police officer's employment.
         (b)  The notice required to be provided to a fire fighter
  under Subsection (a) must be personally delivered to the fire
  fighter or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to
  the last home address provided by the fire fighter.
         (c)  A fire fighter or police officer may waive the notice
  prescribed by this section.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
  143.1014, Local Government Code, applies to a notice required to be
  provided under that section on or after the effective date of this
  Act. A notice required to be provided before the effective date of
  this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
  effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.