Bill Text: TX HB192 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the continuing education requirement for county commissioners.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB192-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Ortega | H.B. No. 192 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 192: | |||
| By: Anderson | C.S.H.B. No. 192 | ||
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| relating to the continuing education requirement for county | ||
| commissioners. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 81.0025(a) and (b), Local Government | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A county commissioner must successfully complete at | ||
| least 16 [ |
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| performance of the duties of county commissioners at least once in | ||
| each 12-month period. | ||
| (b) Continuing education instruction required by this | ||
| section must be certified by an accredited public institution of | ||
| higher education. The instruction may be completed online, except | ||
| a county commissioner must complete the instruction in person in | ||
| the first 12-month period of the commissioner's first term. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
