By Chisum H.B. No. 2438 75R4025 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fire insurance rates and fire suppression ratings 1-3 of a municipality at or near the state's borders. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 5, Insurance Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 5.25-3 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 5.25-3. FIRE INSURANCE RATES AND FIRE SUPPRESSION 1-8 RATINGS FOR BORDER MUNICIPALITY. The commissioner, in adopting 1-9 fire insurance rates or in assigning or evaluating a fire 1-10 suppression rating for a municipality at or near the border between 1-11 this state and another state or the United Mexican States, shall 1-12 take into account the existence and capabilities of a fire 1-13 department or volunteer fire department that serves an adjoining or 1-14 nearby municipality in the other state or the United Mexican States 1-15 and that by agreement or by long-standing practice provides fire 1-16 suppression services to the Texas municipality. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.