By Moreno of Harris H.B. No. 2503
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to civil service status of fire fighters in certain
1-3 cities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 143.003(4), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (4) "Fire fighter" means a member of a fire department
1-8 who was appointed in substantial compliance with this Chapter or
1-9 who is entitled to civil service status under Section 143.005 or
1-10 143.084. The term includes employees [fire fighters] who perform:
1-11 (A) fire suppression;
1-12 (B) fire prevention;
1-13 (C) fire training;
1-14 (D) fire safety education;
1-15 (E) fire maintenance;
1-16 (F) fire communications;
1-17 (G) fire medical emergency technology;
1-18 (H) fire photography; [or]
1-19 (I) fire administration[.]; or
1-20 (J) fire arson investigation.
1-21 SECTION 2. This act takes effect on September 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
2-7 terms, and it is so enacted.