By Bosse                                               H.B. No. 718

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the appointment of a fire commissioner in certain rural

 1-3     fire prevention districts.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 794.033(e), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (e)  To be eligible for appointment to the board of a

 1-8     district in a county with a population of 450,000 or more that has

 1-9     not established a public health district under Chapter 121, a

1-10     person must be a resident of or owner of real property in the

1-11     district.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.