By Lewis of Orange                               H.B. No. 704

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the ability of voters in certain counties to petition a

 1-3     commissioners court to increase the salary of members of the county

 1-4     sheriff's department.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 152.072(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-7     amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  The qualified voters of a county with a population of

 1-9     more than 25,000 [30,000] may petition the commissioners court of

1-10     the county to increase the minimum salary of each member of the

1-11     sheriff's department.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.