By Dukes H.B. No. 1946
74R5653 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the state board of trustees of the volunteer
1-3 firefighters' relief and retirement fund.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 20(b), Texas Statewide Volunteer Fire
1-6 Fighters Retirement Act (Article 6243e.3, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-7 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) The governor, with the advice and consent of two-thirds
1-9 majority membership of the senate, shall appoint the trustees from
1-10 lists <a list> of three to five nominees each submitted by the
1-11 State Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas, the Texas
1-12 Association of Hispanic Firefighters, and the Coalition of African
1-13 American Firefighters for each vacancy.
1-14 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-15 to the naming by the governor of an appointee to the state board of
1-16 trustees of the firefighters' relief and retirement fund on or
1-17 after the effective date of this Act. A person named by the
1-18 governor as an appointee to that board before the effective date of
1-19 this Act is subject to the law in effect at the time the governor
1-20 made the appointment, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-21 this purpose.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.