1-1  By:  Turner of Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Montford)    H.B. No. 1695
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Criminal Justice; May 2, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 2, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to authorizing the Texas Youth Commission to perform fire
    1-9  protection, fire prevention, and fire suppression activities at or
   1-10  near commission facilities.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,
   1-13  is amended by adding Section 61.050 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 61.050.  FIRE PROTECTION ACTIVITIES.  (a) The commission
   1-15  may perform fire protection, fire prevention, and fire suppression
   1-16  activities at commission facilities.
   1-17        (b)  The commission may prescribe circumstances under which,
   1-18  for the benefit of the public safety and welfare, commission
   1-19  employees using commission equipment may assist municipal or
   1-20  volunteer fire departments in the performance of fire protection,
   1-21  fire prevention, or fire suppression activities near commission
   1-22  facilities.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-28  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-29  passage, and it is so enacted.
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