1-1  By:  Lewis of Orange (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)         H.B. No. 1770
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
    1-3  May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 1995, reported favorably, as
    1-5  amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent
    1-6  to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Ellis
    1-8  Amend H.B 1770 by creating a new Section 3 to read as follows and
    1-9  renumbering all following sections appropriately:
   1-10        SECTION 3.  Section 157.021, Local Governmental Code, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 157.021.  HOURS OF WORK OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES <IN COUNTIES
   1-13  OF 355,000 OR MORE>
   1-14        (a)  In a county with a population of 355,000 or more, the
   1-15  commissioners court may adopt and enforce uniform rules on the
   1-16  hours of work of department heads, assistants, deputies, and other
   1-17  employees whose compensation is set or approved by the court.
   1-18        (b)  The commissioners court of any county may adopt and
   1-19  enforce uniform rules on overtime and compensatory time for
   1-20  department heads, assistants, deputies and other employees whose
   1-21  compensation is set or approved by the commissioners court.  The
   1-22  rules may:
   1-23              (1)  prohibit unbudgeted overtime, except when the
   1-24  commissioners court or an elected county or district officer
   1-25  declares an emergency; and
   1-26              (2)  require that emergency overtime be reported to the
   1-27  county auditor and the commissioners court.
   1-28                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-29                                AN ACT
   1-30  relating to the ability of voters in certain counties to petition a
   1-31  commissioners court to increase the salary of members of the county
   1-32  sheriff's department.
   1-33        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-34        SECTION 1.  Section 152.072(a), Local Government Code, is
   1-35  amended to read as follows:
   1-36        (a)  The qualified voters of a county with a population of
   1-37  more than  30,000 <75,000> may petition the commissioners court of
   1-38  the county to increase the minimum salary of each member of the
   1-39  sheriff's department.
   1-40        SECTION 2.  Section 152.073(a), Local Government Code, is
   1-41  amended to read as follows:
   1-42        (a)  A person who is a county official <in a county with a
   1-43  population of more than  75,000> and who is in charge of the
   1-44  sheriff's department or is responsible for setting the compensation
   1-45  provided by Sections 152.071 and 152.072 commits an offense if the
   1-46  person violates Section 152.071 or 152.072.
   1-47        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-48  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-49  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-50  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-51  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-52  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-53  passage, and it is so enacted.
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