73R6037 JD-D
          By Maxey                                               H.B. No. 285
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that the assistant treasurer of a rural
    1-3  fire prevention district execute and file a bond.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 794.036, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The commissioners court of the county in which a
    1-8  single-county district is located or, if the district is located in
    1-9  more than one county, the commissioners court of the county with
   1-10  the largest population in the district may require that the
   1-11  assistant treasurer execute and file with the county clerk of that
   1-12  county a bond conditioned on the faithful execution of the
   1-13  assistant treasurer's duties.  The county judge of the county in
   1-14  which the bond is to be filed must determine the amount and
   1-15  sufficiency of the bond before it is filed.
   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.