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<br />.<'.-- <br /> <br />14. Provide that if a city charter prohibits a city official from having any interest in a <br />contract with a city, the city is not subject to the requirements of Chapter 176. <br /> <br />B. Authorize a city council to appoint a current councilmember to fill a vacancy in the <br />office of mayor, thus overturning Texas Attorney General Opinion GA-0377 (2005). <br /> <br />C. Exempt governmental mosquito control applicators from the full cost recovery <br />requirements of the Texas Health and Safety Code. <br /> <br />II. Support legislation that would: <br /> <br />A. Establish a statewide disaster mutual aid system that would supplement existing <br />mutual aid agreements. <br /> <br />B. Provide full dollar funding for the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer <br />Standards and Education to enable the Commission to fully carry out its responsibility <br />to help ensure citizens and visitors that Texas has the best-trained and most <br />professional law enforcement personnel in the United States. <br /> <br />'c. Enable the use of competitive sealed proposals for the procurement of all goods and <br />servlces. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />D., Enable the use of electronic notice of bid/proposal notice to the public ofbid/proposal <br />opportunities. <br /> <br />E. Provide flexibility in hiring entry-level firefighters and police officers in civil service <br />cities. <br /> <br />F. Allow a fire chief or police chief to increase the number of appointments immediately <br />below the department head level in civil service cities, <br /> <br />III. Endorse legislation that would: <br /> <br />A. Require electronic reporting of pawn shop data to local law enforcement agencies. <br /> <br />B. In the case of an arrest warrant related to suspected child abuse, protect the <br />confidentiality of juvenile information and the identity of a person who reports <br />alleged child abuse. <br /> <br />c. Reduce appeals to third-party hearing examiners of suspensions of less than three <br />days by firefighters or police officers in civil service cities. <br /> <br />D. Provide reasonable time limits for firefighters or police officers to return to work after <br />temporary disabilities or disability retirements in civil service cities. <br /> <br />E. Allow negotiated retirements arising out of or related to resolution of a lawsuit <br />against a firefighter or police officer in a civil service city. <br /> <br />2 <br />