Amend SB 928 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1.  Sections 142.0017(b) and (d), Local Government
Code, are amended to read as follows:
      (b)  A fire fighter or fire fighter emergency medical
personnel may not be required or permitted to work more than an
average of 46.7 hours a week during a 72-day work cycle designated
by the department head <calendar year>.  If the fire fighter or
fire fighter emergency medical services employee is required to
work more than an average of 46.7 hours a week during a 72-day work
cycle designated by the department head <calendar year>, the person
is entitled to be compensated for the overtime as provided by
Subsection (f).
      (d)  If a majority of the members of the fire department
working as fire alarm dispatchers sign a written agreement with the
municipality that allows the municipality to require or permit fire
alarm dispatchers to average a specified number of hours of work a
week that is more than the number of hours allowed under Subsection
(c) but not more than an average of 46.7 hours a week during a
72-day work cycle designated by the department head, the
municipality may adopt a work schedule for the members of the fire
department working as fire alarm dispatchers in accordance with the
agreement.  If under Subsection (f) a member of a fire department
working as a fire alarm dispatcher is required to work more than
the number of hours allowed under the agreement, the person is
entitled to be compensated for the overtime as provided by
Subsection (f).  Each agreement adopted under this subsection
expires as provided by the agreement, but not later than the first
anniversary of the date that the agreement takes effect. Subsection
(c) applies when an agreement adopted under this subsection is not
in effect.
      SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
so enacted.