Bill Text: TX HB840 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the selection of public members to serve on a county's salary grievance committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB840 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB840-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 840 |
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relating to the selection of public members to serve on a county's | ||
salary grievance committee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 152.015, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a), (b), and (d) and adding | ||
Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The public members of the salary grievance committee | ||
shall be selected as provided by Subsection (b) or (b-1) at a | ||
meeting of the commissioners court at any time during the year, but | ||
not later than the 15th day after the date a request for a hearing is | ||
received under Section 152.016(a). If a request for a public | ||
hearing is not received, the commissioners court is not required to | ||
select public members. | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), before [ |
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the meeting required by Subsection (a), the county clerk shall | ||
place on a separate slip the name of each person who served on a | ||
grand jury in the county during the preceding calendar year. At the | ||
meeting the slips shall be folded, placed in an appropriate | ||
container, and mixed. The county judge shall draw at random a number | ||
of slips equal to the number of public members needed for the | ||
committee and shall announce the names on the slips. At the meeting | ||
the county judge may repeat this process and make a list of | ||
alternates. | ||
(b-1) As an alternative to the process prescribed by | ||
Subsection (b), the commissioners court may direct the county clerk | ||
to use a computer to generate a randomized list of the names of all | ||
persons who served on a grand jury in the county during the | ||
preceding calendar year. At the meeting required by Subsection (a), | ||
the commissioners court shall: | ||
(1) adopt the randomized list; | ||
(2) enter the list into the minutes of the meeting; and | ||
(3) select, in the order of the list, the necessary | ||
number of public members and alternates. | ||
(b-2) A person whose name is selected under this section | ||
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submitting written acceptance of the selection to the clerk. If a | ||
person refuses or is unable to serve on the committee, a replacement | ||
shall be appointed from the list of alternates. If the list of | ||
alternates is exhausted or does not exist, a replacement shall be | ||
selected from the remaining names not already selected, in the same | ||
manner as the replaced member, at the next regular or called | ||
commissioners court meeting [ |
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number of public members have accepted the selection [ |
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(d) A vacancy in a public member position shall be filled | ||
for the unexpired part of the term by appointment from the list of | ||
alternates. If the list of alternates is exhausted or does not | ||
exist, a replacement shall be selected [ |
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same manner as the vacating member, [ |
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commissioners court. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 840 was passed by the House on April | ||
9, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 840 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |