By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 2219
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to an exemption from investment training for officers and
 1-3     employees of emergency services and rural fire prevention
 1-4     districts.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 775, Health and Safety
 1-7     Code, is amended by adding Section 775.041 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 775.041.  EXEMPTION FROM INVESTMENT TRAINING.  Section
 1-9     2256.008, Government Code, does not apply to an officer or employee
1-10     of a district created under this chapter.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 794, Health and Safety
1-12     Code, is amended by adding Section 794.038 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 794.038.  EXEMPTION FROM INVESTMENT TRAINING.  Section
1-14     2256.008, Government Code, does not apply to an officer or employee
1-15     of a district created under this chapter.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.