By Bailey H.B. No. 3724 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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.