1-1 By: Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 1495
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to eligibility for appointment to the board of a rural
1-10 fire prevention district.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 794.033(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (e) To be eligible for appointment to the board of a
1-15 district [in a county with a population of 450,000 or more that has
1-16 not established a public health district under Chapter 121], a
1-17 person must reside in or own [be a resident of or owner of] real
1-18 property in the district.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The
1-20 change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who is
1-21 appointed to a board of fire commissioners on or after that date.
1-22 A person appointed to a board of fire commissioners before the
1-23 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-24 appointment was made, and the former law is continued in
1-25 effect for that purpose.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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