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.