By: Maxey H.B. No. 285
73R2044 JD-D
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(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The treasurer and assistant treasurer must each execute
1-8 and file with the county clerk a bond conditioned on the faithful
1-9 execution of the treasurer's duties. The treasurer and assistant
1-10 treasurer of a district located in more than one county shall file
1-11 each <the> bond with the county clerk of the county with the
1-12 largest population in the district. The county judge of the county
1-13 in which the bonds are <bond is> to be filed must determine the
1-14 amount and sufficiency of each <the> bond before it is filed.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-16 SECTION 3. 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.