By Serna                                              H.B. No. 2431
       74R6946 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of the firemen's training school
    1-3  advisory board.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 86.16(b), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The firemen's training school advisory board is composed
    1-8  of:
    1-9              (1)  three members of the staff of the system appointed
   1-10  by the system's board of regents, one of whom shall be the director
   1-11  of the engineering extension service who serves ex officio as the
   1-12  chairman of the advisory board;
   1-13              (2)  two <four> members or representatives of the State
   1-14  Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas or its successor,
   1-15  appointed by the president or other managing officer of that
   1-16  association;
   1-17              (3)  two members or representatives of the Texas
   1-18  Association of Hispanic Firefighters, appointed by the president or
   1-19  other managing officer of that association;
   1-20              (4)  one person who is fire protection personnel as
   1-21  defined by Section 419.021, Government Code, and who is the head of
   1-22  a training division for the fire department of a political
   1-23  subdivision, appointed by the Texas Commission on Fire Protection;
   1-24  and
    2-1              (5) <(4)>  one fire chief appointed by the president or
    2-2  other managing officer of the Texas Fire Chiefs Association or its
    2-3  successor.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        (b)  The positions of the appointed members of the firemen's
    2-6  training school advisory board who were appointed by the State
    2-7  Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas under Section
    2-8  86.16(b), Education Code, as that law existed before the effective
    2-9  date of this Act, and who were serving immediately before September
   2-10  1, 1995, are abolished on that date.  As soon as practicable after
   2-11  the effective date of this Act, the State Firemen's and Fire
   2-12  Marshals' Association of Texas shall appoint the association's
   2-13  representatives to the firemen's training school advisory board in
   2-14  accordance with Section 86.16(b), Education Code, as amended by
   2-15  this Act.
   2-16        (c)  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this
   2-17  Act, the Texas Association of Hispanic Firefighters shall appoint
   2-18  that association's representatives to the firemen's training school
   2-19  advisory board in accordance with Section 86.16(b), Education Code,
   2-20  as amended by this Act.
   2-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.