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.