BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 3705 By: Coleman County Affairs Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Local Government Code provides for a comprehensive administrative scheme for municipal firefighters and police officers that applies to municipalities with a population of 1.5 thousand or more. H.B. 3705 requires work performed in certain sports or community venue districts related to firefighting to be performed by a classified firefighter of the municipality. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 3705 amends the Local Government Code to establish that only a classified firefighter of a municipality may perform work related to firefighting or to a function listed under the definition of a firefighter in a sports or community venue that is or was the subject of a venue project under provisions for sports and community venue districts and that is located within the corporate limits of the municipality. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2009.
BILL ANALYSIS
BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 3705
By: Coleman
County Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 3705
By: Coleman
County Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
The Local Government Code provides for a comprehensive administrative scheme for municipal
firefighters and police officers that applies to municipalities with a population of 1.5 thousand or
more.
H.B. 3705 requires work performed in certain sports or community venue districts related to
firefighting to be performed by a classified firefighter of the municipality.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking
authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 3705 amends the Local Government Code to establish that only a classified firefighter of a
municipality may perform work related to firefighting or to a function listed under the definition
of a firefighter in a sports or community venue that is or was the subject of a venue project under
provisions for sports and community venue districts and that is located within the corporate
limits of the municipality.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2009.