By Hamric H.B. No. 891
76R2425 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the reporting duties of emergency services districts
1-3 and rural fire prevention districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 775.036(d), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (d) Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to the board of a
1-8 district located wholly in one county [The board of a district
1-9 located wholly in one county shall include in the report required
1-10 under Subsection (a)(4):]
1-11 [(1) the number and type of emergency responses made
1-12 within and outside the district;]
1-13 [(2) a listing of all debt incurred by the district;
1-14 and]
1-15 [(3) any other financial matter required by order of
1-16 the commissioners court].
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 794.035(d), Health and Safety Code, is
1-18 amended to read as follows:
1-19 (d) Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to the board of a
1-20 district located wholly in one county [The board of a district
1-21 located wholly in one county shall include in the report required
1-22 under Subsection (a)(4):]
1-23 [(1) the number and type of emergency responses made
1-24 within and outside the district;]
2-1 [(2) a listing of all debt incurred by the district;
2-2 and]
2-3 [(3) any other financial matter required by order of
2-4 the commissioners court].
2-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.