By:  Moncrief                                           S.B. No. 21
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the sheriff's petty cash fund.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 130.904, Local Government
    1-4  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  The commissioners court of a county may establish a
    1-6  petty cash fund for the sheriff's department is an amount set by
    1-7  the commissioners court <not to exceed $5,000>.  The court shall
    1-8  appropriate the amount from the general fund of the county.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-15  passage, and it is so enacted.