By Gallegos                                            S.B. No. 554
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to classification of the position of fire marshal in
 1-3     certain municipal fire departments.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 143, Local Government Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 143.1025 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 143.1025.  CLASSIFICATION OF FIRE MARSHAL.  (a)  In
 1-8     addition to other fire fighter classifications created in
 1-9     accordance with Section 143.021, the municipality's governing body
1-10     shall establish the classification of fire marshal by ordinance.
1-11           (b)  The classified position of fire marshal may only be
1-12     filled from an eligibility list that results from an examination
1-13     held in accordance with this chapter.
1-14           (c)  The failure of the governing body to establish the fire
1-15     marshal position by ordinance does not result in the loss of civil
1-16     service benefits by a person entitled to civil service protection
1-17     or appointed to the position in substantial compliance with this
1-18     chapter.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.