By Alvarado                                     H.B. No. 3047

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the compensation of constables in certain counties.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 152, Local Government Code,

 1-5     is amended by adding Section 152.907 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 152.907.  COMPENSATION OF CONSTABLES IN CERTAIN

 1-7     COUNTIES.  The commissioners court of a county with a population of

 1-8     one million or more shall pay each constable of the county a salary

 1-9     in an amount equal to 80 percent of the salary of the county judge,

1-10     in addition to any compensation based on longevity.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-12     applies only to the salary paid to a constable in a county fiscal

1-13     year beginning after the effective date of this Act.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.