1-1     By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 489

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 7, 1997; February 12, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the authority of sheriffs in certain counties to

 1-9     regulate certain activities involving explosives.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 236.001, Local Government

1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (a)  This chapter applies only to a county with a population

1-14     of one [two] million or more.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.

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