Bill Text: TX HB997 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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By: Muñoz, Jr. H.B. No. 997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to municipal authority 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.