1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 395
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 1999; February 8, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; March 4, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 4, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the employment of a person by counties with civil
 1-9     service systems.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 151.902, Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-13           (d)  This section does not apply to the employment of a
1-14     person who is employed under a county civil service system created
1-15     under Chapter 158.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.
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