By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 1849
74R5084 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to uniform rules on the hours of work by county employees.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 157.021, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 157.021. HOURS OF WORK OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES <IN COUNTIES
1-7 OF 355,000 OR MORE>. The <In a county with a population of 355,000
1-8 or more, the> commissioners court of a county may adopt and enforce
1-9 uniform rules on the hours of work of department heads, assistants,
1-10 deputies, and other employees whose compensation is set or approved
1-11 by the court.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.