By Tillery H.B. No. 1199
75R4251 GJH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of certain counties to create a
1-3 sheriff's department civil service system.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 158.032, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 158.032. ELIGIBLE DEPARTMENTS. A sheriff's department
1-8 in a county with a population of more than 50,000 [500,000] may, in
1-9 accordance with this subchapter, create a civil service system.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.