Bill Text: TX HB192 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the continuing education requirement for county commissioners.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB192-Comm_Sub.html
87R13991 SGM-D | |||
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. |