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.