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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