HBA-TBM H.B. 1091 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1091
By: Reyna, Elvira
County Affairs
3/25/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, no city, municipality, county, state, or federal
employee is prohibited from serving on a county civil service commission.
Also under current law, members of the county civil service commission are
appointed by the commissioners court.  In Dallas County, members of the
commissioners court have been appointed to the Dallas County Civil Service
Commission.  House Bill 1091 provides that a member of the commissioners
court of a county is not prohibited from being appointed to the county
civil service commission.   

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1091 amends the Local Government Code to provide that a member
of the commissioners court of a county is not prohibited from being
appointed to the county civil service commission.   

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001.