By Combs H.B. No. 1371
74R3409 MLR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exempt positions in a sheriff department's civil
1-3 service system.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.038(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The sheriff of a county with a population of 2,000,000
1-8 or less may designate as exempt from the civil service system:
1-9 (1) the position of chief deputy;
1-10 (2) four positions of major deputy;
1-11 (3) one or more positions in the office of
1-12 departmental legal counsel; and
1-13 (4) additional positions in the department; provided,
1-14 however, that the sheriff may not designate as exempt a number
1-15 <total> of <more than 10> positions that exceeds the greater of 10
1-16 or the number of positions equal to 1-1/2 percent of the total
1-17 number of full-time equivalent employees in the department.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.