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	Amend CSSB 1011 (House Committee Report) as follows:                         

(1)  Strike the recital to SECTION 6 of the bill (page 2, 	lines 5-6) and substitute the following:

Sections 419.004(a) and (e), Government Code, are amended to read 
as follows:
	(a)  The commission is composed of the following 13 members:                   
		(1)  two members to be selected from a list of five 
names submitted by the Texas Fire Chiefs Association who are chief 
officers with a minimum rank that is equivalent to the position 
immediately below that of the fire chief and who are employed in 
fire departments as defined by Section 419.021 that are under the 
jurisdiction of the commission, at least one of whom must be the 
head of a fire department and one of whom must be employed by a 
political subdivision with a population of less than 100,000
[50,000];
		(2)  two members to be selected from a list of five 
names submitted by the Texas State Association of Fire Fighters who 
are fire protection personnel as defined by Section 419.021 with 
the rank of battalion chief or below and who are employed in fire 
departments or other appropriate local authorities under the 
jurisdiction of the commission, one of whom must be employed by a 
political subdivision with a population of less than 100,000
[50,000];
		(3)  two members to be selected from a list of five 
names submitted by the State Firemen's and Fire Marshals' 
Association of Texas who are volunteer fire chiefs or volunteer 
fire fighters;
		(4)  one certified fire protection engineer;                                  
		(5)  one certified arson investigator or certified fire 
protection inspector;
		(6)  one fire protection instructor from an institution 
of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code;  
and
		(7)  four public members.                                                     
	(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 419.0082(a), Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  In adopting or amending a rule under Section 419.008(a) 
or any other law, the commission shall seek the input of the fire 
fighter advisory committee and, when appropriate, the funds 
allocation advisory committee.  The commission shall permit the 
appropriate advisory committee to review and comment on any 
proposed rule, including a proposed amendment to a rule, before the 
rule is adopted.  The recommendations of an advisory committee are 
subject to modification or rejection by the commission, in the 
commission's sole discretion, without the resubmission of the 
matter to the advisory committee.
	(3)  In the recital to SECTION 17 of the bill (page 11, line 
9) strike "amending Subsection (e) and".
	(4)  In SECTION 17 of the bill, strike amended Section 
419.023(e), Government Code (page 11, lines 11-16).
	(5)  In SECTION 31 of the bill, add the following 
appropriately lettered subsection and reletter subsequent 
subsections accordingly:
	(____)  Section 419.0082, Government Code, as amended by 
this Act, applies to a rule adopted on or after the effective date 
of this Act.  A rule adopted before the effective date of this Act is 
governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and the 
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.