1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 284
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1993;
1-3 April 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 1993, reported favorably, as
1-5 amended, by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 20, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Armbrister
1-21 Amend HB 284 by inserting the following new section and renumbering
1-22 the remaining sections:
1-23 "SECTION 2. For any rural fire district, rural rail
1-24 transportation district, municipal management district, or
1-25 conservation and reclamation district that encompasses one entire
1-26 county and that county appoints six of the directors, those
1-27 directors shall be appointed as follows:
1-28 (a) four directors shall be appointed by the four county
1-29 commissioners, one director appointed by each commissioner, and
1-30 must reside in the appointing commissioners' precinct; and
1-31 (b) two directors shall be appointed by the entire
1-32 commissioners court and must be residents of a municipal utility
1-33 district within the county but not within any incorporated city."
1-34 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-35 AN ACT
1-36 relating to the requirement that a person appointed to the board of
1-37 fire commissioners of certain rural fire prevention districts be a
1-38 resident of the district.
1-39 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-40 SECTION 1. Section 794.033, Health and Safety Code, is
1-41 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-42 (e) To be eligible for appointment to the board of a
1-43 district in a county with a population of 450,000 or more that has
1-44 not established a public health district under Chapter 121, a
1-45 person must be a resident of the district.
1-46 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The
1-47 change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who is
1-48 appointed to a board of fire commissioners on or after that date.
1-49 A person appointed to a board of fire commissioners before the
1-50 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-51 appointment was made, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-52 that purpose.
1-53 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-54 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-55 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-56 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-57 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 Austin,
1-60 Texas
1-61 May 20, 1993
1-62 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-63 President of the Senate
1-64 Sir:
1-65 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-66 referred H.B. No. 284, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-67 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-68 recommendation that it do pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-1 Armbrister,
2-2 Chairman
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2-4 WITNESSES
2-5 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 284.