H.B. No. 284 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that a person appointed to the board of 1-3 fire commissioners of certain rural fire prevention districts be a 1-4 resident of the district. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 794.033, Health and Safety Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) To be eligible for appointment to the board of a 1-9 district in a county with a population of 450,000 or more that has 1-10 not established a public health district under Chapter 121, a 1-11 person must be a resident of the district. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The 1-13 change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who is 1-14 appointed to a board of fire commissioners on or after that date. 1-15 A person appointed to a board of fire commissioners before the 1-16 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 1-17 appointment was made, and the former law is continued in effect for 1-18 that purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.