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 2-3 * * * * * 2-4 WITNESSES 2-5 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 284.