By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 3724
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to classification of positions within covered fire
 1-3     departments.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 143 of the Local Government
 1-6     Code is amended by adding the following:
 1-7           Sec. 143.1052.  CLASSIFICATION.  Except for the work of the
 1-8     department head, the person the department head appoints in
 1-9     accordance with Section 143.014 or 143.102, and purely clerical
1-10     personnel, all work of a type described in Section 143.003(4) shall
1-11     be performed and supervised by fire department personnel who are
1-12     classified in accordance with Section 143.021.
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,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
1-20     terms, and it is so enacted.