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.