By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 1588
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an exclusion from a tax levied by rural fire prevention
    1-3  districts for certain communities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 794.032, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Section 794.032.   Certain <Businesses> Entities Not Subject
    1-8  to Tax or District Powers.
    1-9        A business entity, or all or any portion of the territory of
   1-10  a community of 15,000 acres or more established under the Urban
   1-11  Growth and New Community Development Act of 1970, Title VII of the
   1-12  Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, 42 U.S.C. Secs.
   1-13  4511-4532 (1970) and subject to ad valorem based assessments on
   1-14  real property used, in part, to fund fire protection services,
   1-15  which is located in a district is not subject to the tax authorized
   1-16  by this chapter or subject to the district's powers if the business
   1-17  entity, or the organization responsible for administering and
   1-18  collecting the ad valorem based assessments on real property in
   1-19  such territory:
   1-20              (1)  provides its own or contracts for the provision of
   1-21  fire protection services;
   1-22              (2)  in the case of a business entity, receives the
   1-23  appropriate certification from the Texas Industrial Fire Training
    2-1  Board; and
    2-2              (3)  owns or operates or receives fire protection
    2-3  services under contract from an organization which owns or operates
    2-4  fire-fighting equipment equivalent to or better than a Class I
    2-5  Rural Fire Prevention District or Metropolitan County Fire
    2-6  Protection System, as defined by the State Board of Insurance on
    2-7  September 1, 1985.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.