1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 417
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1999; February 8, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the reporting duties of emergency services districts
1-9 and rural fire prevention districts.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 775.036, Health and
1-12 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (d) Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to the [The] board of a
1-14 district located wholly in one county [shall include in the report
1-15 required under Subsection (a)(4):]
1-16 [(1) the number and type of emergency responses made
1-17 within and outside the district;]
1-18 [(2) a listing of all debt incurred by the district;
1-19 and]
1-20 [(3) any other financial matter required by order of
1-21 the commissioners court].
1-22 SECTION 2. Subsection (d), Section 794.035, Health and
1-23 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-24 (d) Subsection (a)(4) does not apply to the [The] board of a
1-25 district located wholly in one county [shall include in the report
1-26 required under Subsection (a)(4):]
1-27 [(1) the number and type of emergency responses made
1-28 within and outside the district;]
1-29 [(2) a listing of all debt incurred by the district;
1-30 and]
1-31 [(3) any other financial matter required by order of
1-32 the commissioners court].
1-33 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-34 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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