By Tillery                                      H.B. No. 1199

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                                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.