Bill Text: TX HB3735 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection and the disposition of certain fees collected by the commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3735 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3735-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Martinez | H.B. No. 3735 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3735: | |||
By: Dutton | C.S.H.B. No. 3735 |
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relating to the composition of the Texas Commission on Fire | ||
Protection and the disposition of certain fees collected by the | ||
commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 419.004(a), Government Code, is 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 150,000 | ||
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(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 150,000 | ||
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(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. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 419.026(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) The commission shall send the fees authorized by | ||
Subsection (a) and Section 419.033(b) to the comptroller. The | ||
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general revenue fund dedicated for use by the commission. In any | ||
state fiscal biennium, the comptroller may not deposit into the | ||
account fees in an amount that exceeds the amount appropriated to | ||
the commission for that biennium, less any other amount | ||
appropriated to the commission from a source other than the fees. | ||
The account is exempt from the application of Section 403.095. The | ||
comptroller shall deposit the remainder of the fees in the general | ||
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SECTION 3. The dedication of certain fees to a special | ||
account in the general revenue fund dedicated for use by the Texas | ||
Commission on Fire Protection under Section 419.026(d), Government | ||
Code, was abolished effective August 31, 1995, under former Section | ||
403.094(h), Government Code, as enacted by Section 11.04, Chapter 4 | ||
(S.B. 3), Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991. | ||
Those fees are rededicated to that fund by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |