By: Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 4025
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021;
May 12, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
Government; May 22, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 22, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to applicability of civil service status to emergency
medical services personnel in certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 143.401(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) This subchapter applies only to a municipality:
(1) with a population of 460,000 or more that:
(A) operates under a city manager form of
government; or
(B) operated under a city manager form of
government at the time this subchapter was adopted in the
municipality; and
(2) that employs emergency medical services personnel
in a municipal department other than the fire department.
SECTION 2. 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, 2021.
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