85R18283 CJC-F
By: Guillen H.B. No. 3066
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain benefits and protections for service members of
the Texas military forces ordered to state active duty or to state
training and other duty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 437.213, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 437.213. CERTAIN BENEFITS AND PROTECTIONS FOR STATE
SERVICE. A service member of the Texas military forces who is
ordered to state active duty or to state training and other duty by
the governor, the adjutant general, or another proper authority
under the law of this state is entitled to the same benefits and
protections provided to persons:
(1) performing service in the uniformed services as
provided by 38 U.S.C. Sections 4301-4313 and 4316-4319[, as that
law existed on April 1, 2003]; and
(2) in the military service of the United States as
provided by 50 [App.] U.S.C. Sections 3901-3959, 3991, and
4011-4026 [501-536, 560, and 580-594, as that law existed on April
1, 2003].
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a service member of the Texas military forces who is serving on
state active duty or on state training and other duty on the
effective date of this Act or who is ordered to such duty on or after
that date.
SECTION 3. 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, 2017.