By Earley                                             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) of the Education Code is amended
    1-5  to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 86.16.  Firemen's Training School.  (a)  The Texas A&M
    1-7  University System shall conduct and maintain a firemen's training
    1-8  school through the Texas Engineering Extension Service as a unit of
    1-9  the university system in the manner deemed expedient and advisable
   1-10  by the system's board of regents.  The Texas Engineering Extension
   1-11  Service is designated as the agency of the state to conduct fire
   1-12  protection, rescue, leadership, and management training on a
   1-13  statewide basis to paid and volunteer firefighters, and shall serve
   1-14  as the recognized statewide fire and rescue training agency liaison
   1-15  to the National Fire Academy.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-17  and the crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create
   1-18  an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.