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.