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         By:  Gallegos                                 S.B. No. 929

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to Home-Rule Municipality.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 342.011, Local Government Code, is

 1-4     amended to read as follows:

 1-5           Sec. 342.011.  FIRE DEPARTMENT.  A home-rule municipality may

 1-6     provide for a fire department as defined by Section 419.021(a)(2),

 1-7     Texas Government Code.

 1-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 1-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.