AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the reporting duties of emergency services districts
 1-2     and rural fire prevention districts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 775.036, Health and
 1-5     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to the [The] board of a
 1-7     district located wholly in one county [shall include in the report
 1-8     required under Subsection (a)(4):]
 1-9                 [(1)  the number and type of emergency responses made
1-10     within and outside the district;]
1-11                 [(2)  a listing of all debt incurred by the district;
1-12     and]
1-13                 [(3)  any other financial matter required by order of
1-14     the commissioners court].
1-15           SECTION 2.  Subsection (d), Section 794.035, Health and
1-16     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-17           (d)  Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to the [The] board of a
1-18     district located wholly in one county [shall include in the report
1-19     required under Subsection (a)(4):]
1-20                 [(1)  the number and type of emergency responses made
1-21     within and outside the district;]
1-22                 [(2)  a listing of all debt incurred by the district;
1-23     and]
1-24                 [(3)  any other financial matter required by order of
 2-1     the commissioners court].
 2-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 417 passed the Senate on
         March 2, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 417 passed the House on
         May 11, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor