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| 1 | - | By: Martinez, Springer, Guillen H.B. No. 2771 | |
| 2 | - | (Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston) | |
| 3 | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2015; | |
| 4 | - | May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Business | |
| 5 | - | and Commerce; May 15, 2015, reported favorably by the following | |
| 6 | - | vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 15, 2015, sent to printer.) | |
| 7 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
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| 21 | - | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 22 | 4 | AN ACT | |
| 23 | 5 | relating to employment activities of certain emergency response | |
| 24 | 6 | personnel for purposes of the Texas Workers' Compensation Act. | |
| 25 | 7 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 26 | 8 | SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 401, Labor Code, is | |
| 27 | 9 | amended by adding Section 401.026 to read as follows: | |
| 28 | 10 | Sec. 401.026. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN EMERGENCY RESPONSE | |
| 29 | 11 | PERSONNEL. For purposes of this subtitle, the travel of a | |
| 30 | 12 | firefighter or emergency medical personnel en route to an emergency | |
| 31 | 13 | call is considered to be in the course and scope of the | |
| 32 | 14 | firefighter's or emergency medical personnel's employment. | |
| 33 | 15 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | |
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| 16 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ | |
| 17 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House | |
| 18 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2771 was passed by the House on April | |
| 19 | + | 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not | |
| 20 | + | voting. | |
| 21 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 22 | + | Chief Clerk of the House | |
| 23 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2771 was passed by the Senate on May | |
| 24 | + | 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | |
| 25 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 26 | + | Secretary of the Senate | |
| 27 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ | |
| 28 | + | Date | |
| 29 | + | _____________________ | |
| 30 | + | Governor |