1-1  By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 879
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; May 10, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
    1-6  May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 879               By:  Barrientos
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the composition of the workforce in certain fire
   1-11  departments.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
   1-14  is amended by adding Section 143.090 to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 143.090.  LOCAL CONTROL OF WORKFORCE COMPOSITION IN
   1-16  CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS.  (a)  This section applies only to a
   1-17  municipality with a population of 250,000 or more.
   1-18        (b)  A municipality with the approval of the recognized
   1-19  employee association may implement a program to ensure that the
   1-20  composition of the workforce of the paid fire fighters in its fire
   1-21  department reasonably represents the demographic composition of the
   1-22  residents of the municipality.
   1-23        (c)  The governing body of the municipality shall ensure that
   1-24  the requirements imposed by a program implemented under Subsection
   1-25  (b) are not lower than the requirements set by this chapter for the
   1-26  appointment or promotion of a paid fire fighter.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-32  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-33  passage, and it is so enacted.
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