By Tillery                                      H.B. No. 1198

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to personnel records of certain sheriff's departments.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 157.904(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  This section applies only to a sheriff's department in a

 1-7     county with a population of 100,000 [2,000,000] or more.

 1-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 1-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.