1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the bond and oath requirements applicable to a sheriff.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 85.001(g), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     repealed.

 1-6           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 1-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 1-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 1-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-11     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-12     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2222 was passed by the House on May

         7, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2222 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor