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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