By:  Turner                                            S.B. No. 728
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the duties of the Texas Engineering Extension Service.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 86.16(a) of the Education Code is amended
    1-4  to read as follows:
    1-5        Section 86.16.  Firemen's Training School.  (a)  The Texas
    1-6  A&M University System shall conduct and maintain a firemen's
    1-7  training school through the Texas Engineering Extension Service as
    1-8  a unit of the university system in the manner deemed expedient and
    1-9  advisable by the system's board of regents.  The Texas Engineering
   1-10  Extension Service is designated as the agency of the state to
   1-11  conduct fire protection, rescue, leadership, and management
   1-12  training on a statewide basis to paid and volunteer firefighters,
   1-13  and shall serve as the recognized statewide fire and rescue
   1-14  training agency liaison to the National Fire Academy.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.