By:  Wentworth, Barrientos                             S.B. No. 579
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to exempt civil service positions in certain sheriff's
    1-2  departments.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 158.038, Local Government
    1-5  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The sheriff of a county with a population of 2,000,000
    1-7  or less may designate as exempt from the civil service system:
    1-8              (1)  the position of chief deputy;
    1-9              (2)  four positions of major deputy;
   1-10              (3)  one or more positions in the office of
   1-11  departmental legal counsel; and
   1-12              (4)  additional positions in the department<; provided,
   1-13  however>, except that the sheriff may not designate as exempt a
   1-14  number of positions that exceeds the greater of:
   1-15                    (A)  1.5 percent of the total number of full-time
   1-16  employees of the department; or
   1-17                    (B)  10 <total of more than 10 positions>.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.