By Tillery                                            H.B. No. 3345
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the administration of retirement systems for paid,
 1-3     partly paid, or volunteer fire fighters.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 3(a)(3), Texas Local Fire Fighters
 1-6     Retirement Act (Article 6243e,  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8                 (3)  a municipality that has in effect a program
 1-9     providing retirement benefits for fire department personnel that
1-10     was established by charter or ordinance before September 1, 1989,
1-11     and where the members of that department have not voted to come
1-12     under the provisions of this Act.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.