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.