By: Alvarado (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos) H.B. No. 2516
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2011;
May 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 2011, reported adversely,
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2516 By: Gallegos
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appeal of an indefinite suspension of a municipal
firefighter.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 143.120, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1) A temporary suspension of a firefighter under
Subsection (c)(2) may not exceed 90 calendar days.
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, 2011.
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