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| 1 | 1 | 86R4844 MEW-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Geren H.B. No. 534 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to the eligibility of emergency service dispatchers to | |
| 8 | 8 | participate in a public safety employees treatment court program. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 129.001, Government Code, is amended to | |
| 11 | 11 | read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | Sec. 129.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "public safety | |
| 13 | 13 | employee" means a peace officer, firefighter, detention officer, | |
| 14 | 14 | county jailer, [or] emergency medical services employee, or | |
| 15 | 15 | emergency service dispatcher of this state or a political | |
| 16 | 16 | subdivision of this state. | |
| 17 | 17 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | |
| 18 | 18 | person who, on or after the effective date of this Act, enters a | |
| 19 | 19 | public safety employees treatment court program created under | |
| 20 | 20 | Chapter 129, Government Code, regardless of whether the person | |
| 21 | 21 | entering the program committed the offense for which the person | |
| 22 | 22 | enters the program before, on, or after the effective date of this | |
| 23 | 23 | Act. | |
| 24 | 24 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |