1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 579
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 15, 1995; February 16, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 3; March 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to exempt civil service positions in certain sheriff's
1-9 departments.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 158.038, Local Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The sheriff of a county with a population of 2,000,000
1-14 or less may designate as exempt from the civil service system:
1-15 (1) the position of chief deputy;
1-16 (2) four positions of major deputy;
1-17 (3) one or more positions in the office of
1-18 departmental legal counsel; and
1-19 (4) additional positions in the department<; provided,
1-20 however>, except that the sheriff may not designate as exempt a
1-21 number of positions that exceeds the greater of:
1-22 (A) 1.5 percent of the total number of full-time
1-23 employees of the department; or
1-24 (B) 10 <total of more than 10 positions>.
1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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