Amend SB 489 as follows:
      (1)  Strike SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, lines 11-14,
committee report) and substitute the following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 236.001, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 236.001. APPLICABILITY. (a)  <This chapter applies only
to a county with a population of two million or more.>
      <(b)>  This chapter does not apply to fire, police, or
military personnel acting in the course of their professional
duties.
      (b) <(c)>  This chapter does not affect the authority of a
municipality in the county to enact ordinances under other law
concerning explosives.
      SECTION 2.  Section 236.003(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the commissioners
court of a <the> county by order may authorize the sheriff of the
<a> county to:
            (1)  propose rules to implement this chapter; and
            (2)  in accordance with the rules proposed by the
sheriff and adopted by the commissioners court under this chapter:
                  (A)  regulate the production, distribution,
transport, transfer, use, and possession of an explosive in the
county; and
                  (B)  enforce standards concerning the
manufacture, transportation, transfer, use, handling, and storage
of explosives as necessary for the protection of the public health,
welfare, or safety and of persons possessing, handling, and using
explosives.
      (2)  Renumber existing SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line
15, committee report) as SECTION 3.