H.B. No. 1770
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the ability of voters in certain counties to petition a
    1-3  commissioners court to increase the salary of members of the county
    1-4  sheriff's department.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 152.072(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  The qualified voters of a county with a population of
    1-9  more than  30,000 <75,000> may petition the commissioners court of
   1-10  the county to increase the minimum salary of each member of the
   1-11  sheriff's department.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 152.073(a), Local Government Code, is
   1-13  amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  A person who is a county official <in a county with a
   1-15  population of more than  75,000> and who is in charge of the
   1-16  sheriff's department or is responsible for setting the compensation
   1-17  provided by Sections 152.071 and 152.072 commits an offense if the
   1-18  person violates Section 152.071 or 152.072.
   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,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.