1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for appointment to the board of a rural
1-3 fire prevention district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 794.033(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) To be eligible for appointment to the board of a
1-8 district [in a county with a population of 450,000 or more that has
1-9 not established a public health district under Chapter 121], a
1-10 person must reside in or own [be a resident of or owner of] real
1-11 property in the district.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The
1-13 change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who is
1-14 appointed to a board of fire commissioners on or after that date.
1-15 A person appointed to a board of fire commissioners before the
1-16 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-17 appointment was made, and the former law is continued in
1-18 effect for that purpose.
1-19 SECTION 3. 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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1495 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1495 was passed by the Senate on May
10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor