By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 788
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 12, 2021;
April 19, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Criminal Justice; May 6, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 6, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of emergency service dispatchers to
participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 129.001, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 129.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "public safety
employee" means a peace officer, firefighter, detention officer,
county jailer, [or] emergency medical services employee, or
emergency service dispatcher of this state or a political
subdivision of this state.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
person who, on or after the effective date of this Act, enters a
public safety employees treatment court program created under
Chapter 129, Government Code, regardless of whether the person
entering the program committed the offense for which the person
enters the program before, on, or after the effective date of this
Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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