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.
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   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
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   1-57                               WITNESSES
   1-58  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 285.