By Madla                                         S.B. No. 489

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of sheriffs in certain counties to

 1-3     regulate certain activities involving explosives.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 236.001(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  This chapter applies only to a county with a population

 1-8     of one [two] million or more.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.