1-1     By:  Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)                 H.B. No. 718

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 17, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 17, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the appointment of a fire commissioner in certain rural

1-10     fire prevention districts.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 794.033(e), Health and Safety Code, is

1-13     amended to read as follows:

1-14           (e)  To be eligible for appointment to the board of a

1-15     district in a county with a population of 450,000 or more that has

1-16     not established a public health district under Chapter 121, a

1-17     person must be a resident of or owner of real property in the

1-18     district.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

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