By Barrientos S.B. No. 879 74R7267 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the composition of the workforce in certain fire 1-3 departments. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 143, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 143.090 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 143.090. LOCAL CONTROL OF WORKFORCE COMPOSITION IN 1-8 CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS. (a) This section applies only to a 1-9 municipality with a population of 250,000 or more. 1-10 (b) A municipality may implement a program to ensure that 1-11 the composition of the workforce of the paid firefighters in its 1-12 fire department reasonably represents the demographic composition 1-13 of the residents of the municipality. 1-14 (c) The governing body of the municipality shall ensure that 1-15 the requirements imposed by a program implemented under Subsection 1-16 (b) are not lower than the requirements set by this chapter for the 1-17 appointment or promotion of a paid firefighter. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.