By:  Chisum                                           H.B. No. 2630
       73R1029 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the duties that may be performed by fire protection
    1-3  personnel before completion of the fire suppression training
    1-4  course.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 419.032(c), Government Code, is amended
    1-7  to read as follows:
    1-8        (c)  Fire protection personnel who receive temporary or
    1-9  probationary appointment and who fail to satisfactorily complete a
   1-10  basic course in fire protection, as prescribed by the commission,
   1-11  before one year after the date of the original appointment forfeit,
   1-12  and shall be removed from, the position.  A temporary or
   1-13  probationary appointment may not be extended beyond one year by
   1-14  renewal of appointment or otherwise, except that on petition of a
   1-15  fire department one year or more after the date of the forfeiture
   1-16  and removal, the commission may reinstate the person's temporary or
   1-17  probationary employment.  Fire protection personnel must complete a
   1-18  commission-approved training course in fire suppression before
   1-19  being assigned full-time to fire suppression duties, but they may
   1-20  be assigned auxiliary fire suppression duties, including fire
   1-21  station duties and the duty to assist with equipment at fires,
   1-22  before completing the training course.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.