1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 285 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 by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to 1-6 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 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-21 AN ACT 1-22 relating to the requirement that the assistant treasurer of a rural 1-23 fire prevention district execute and file a bond. 1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-25 SECTION 1. Section 794.036, Health and Safety Code, is 1-26 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-27 (c) The commissioners court of the county in which a 1-28 single-county district is located or, if the district is located in 1-29 more than one county, the commissioners court of the county with 1-30 the largest population in the district may require that the 1-31 assistant treasurer execute and file with the county clerk of that 1-32 county a bond conditioned on the faithful execution of the 1-33 assistant treasurer's duties. The county judge of the county in 1-34 which the bond is to be filed must determine the amount and 1-35 sufficiency of the bond before it is filed. 1-36 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-42 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-43 * * * * * 1-44 Austin, 1-45 Texas 1-46 May 20, 1993 1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-48 President of the Senate 1-49 Sir: 1-50 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-51 referred H.B. No. 285, have had the same under consideration, and I 1-52 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-53 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-54 Armbrister, 1-55 Chairman 1-56 * * * * * 1-57 WITNESSES 1-58 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 285.