By Hochberg H.B. No. 1588 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1588: By Heflin C.S.H.B. No. 1588 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exclusion from taxation by rural fire prevention 1-3 districts of certain businesses and communities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 794, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 794.0325 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 794.0325. CERTAIN COMMUNITIES NOT SUBJECT TO TAX OR 1-8 DISTRICT POWERS. The territory of a community of at least 15,000 1-9 acres established under the Urban Growth and New Community 1-10 Development Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. Section 4501 et seq.) located in 1-11 a district is not subject to the tax authorized by this chapter or 1-12 subject to the district's powers if the community: 1-13 (1) provides its own or contracts for fire protection 1-14 services; and 1-15 (2) owns or operates, or contracts for fire protection 1-16 services with an entity that owns or operates, fire-fighting 1-17 equipment equivalent to or better than a Class I Rural Fire 1-18 Prevention District or Metropolitan County Fire Protection System, 1-19 as defined by the State Board of Insurance on September 1, 1985. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.