By:  Cain                                               S.B. No. 10

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the authority of certain counties to adopt and enforce

 1-2     a fire code.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 235.001, Local Government

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  The commissioners court of a county with a population of

 1-7     over 250,000 or a county adjacent to a county with a population of

 1-8     over 250,000 may adopt a fire code and rules necessary to

 1-9     administer and enforce the fire code.

1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.