By Wentworth S.B. No. 579
74R4101 PEP-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exempt civil service positions in certain sheriff's
1-3 departments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.038(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The sheriff of a county with a population of 2,000,000
1-8 or less may designate as exempt from the civil service system:
1-9 (1) the position of chief deputy;
1-10 (2) four positions of major deputy;
1-11 (3) one or more positions in the office of
1-12 departmental legal counsel; and
1-13 (4) additional positions in the department<; provided,
1-14 however>, except that the sheriff may not designate as exempt a
1-15 number of positions that exceeds the greater of:
1-16 (A) 1.5 percent of the total number of full-time
1-17 employees of the department; or
1-18 (B) 10 <total of more than 10 positions>.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.