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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