By Earley H.B. No. 1733
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1733:
By Earley C.S.H.B. No. 1733
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duties of the Texas Engineering Extension Service.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 86.16(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Section 86.16. Firemen's Training School.
1-7 (a) The Texas A&M University shall conduct and maintain a
1-8 firemen's training school through the Texas Engineering Extension
1-9 Service as a unit of the university system in the manner deemed
1-10 expedient and advisable by the system's board of regents. The
1-11 Texas Engineering Extension Service shall serve as the recognized
1-12 statewide fire and rescue training agency liaison to the National
1-13 Fire Academy. In their capacity as the National Fire Academy
1-14 liaison, the extension service shall distribute National Fire
1-15 Academy student manuals on request to associations, fire
1-16 departments, state agencies, and institutions of higher education
1-17 which meet National Fire Academy qualifications.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.