85R7645 SMT-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 2211
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the qualifications to serve as an emergency services
commissioner in certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 775.0355(b) and (c), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) This section applies only to a district located [wholly
in a county]:
(1) wholly or partly in a county with a population of
more than three million;
(2) wholly in a county with a population of more than
200,000 that borders Lake Palestine; or
(3) wholly in a county with a population of less than
200,000 that borders another state and the Gulf Intracoastal
Waterway.
(c) A person is disqualified from serving as an emergency
services commissioner if that person:
(1) is related within the third degree of affinity or
consanguinity to:
(A) a person providing professional services to
the district;
(B) a commissioner of the same district; or
(C) a person who is an employee or volunteer of an
emergency services organization that is providing emergency
services to the district, other than an organization providing
emergency services to the district under a mutual aid agreement
under Chapter 418, Government Code;
(2) is an employee of a commissioner of the same
district, attorney, or other person providing professional
services to the district;
(3) is serving as an attorney, consultant, or
architect or in some other professional capacity for the district
or an emergency services organization providing emergency services
to the district; or
(4) fails to maintain the qualifications required by
law to serve as a commissioner.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.