Bill Text: TX HB997 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to prohibit police or fire department employees from circulating or signing certain employment petitions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Referred to Local Government [HB997 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB997-Engrossed.html
| 88R15344 MZM-F | ||
| By: Muñoz, Jr. | H.B. No. 997 | |
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| relating to the authority of a municipality to prohibit police or | ||
| fire department employees from circulating or signing certain | ||
| employment petitions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 150, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter Z to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS | ||
| Sec. 150.901. AUTHORITY TO PROHIBIT POLICE OR FIRE | ||
| DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES FROM CIRCULATING OR SIGNING CERTAIN | ||
| PETITIONS. A municipality may not adopt or enforce a charter | ||
| provision, ordinance, policy, or other measure that prohibits an | ||
| employee of the municipality's police or fire department from | ||
| circulating or signing a petition authorized by Chapter 142, 143, | ||
| or 174. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
