By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 489

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the authority of sheriffs in certain counties to

 1-2     regulate certain activities involving explosives.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 236.001, Local Government

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  This chapter applies only to a county with a population

 1-7     of one [two] million or more.

 1-8           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 1-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-13     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-14     passage, and it is so enacted.