88R7278 KKR-F
By: Canales H.B. No. 3335
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to employment activities of certain emergency response
personnel for purposes of the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 401.026, Labor Code, is amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 401.026. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN EMERGENCY RESPONSE
PERSONNEL. For purposes of this subtitle, the travel of a
firefighter, peace officer, or emergency medical personnel en route
to or from an emergency call is considered to be in the course and
scope of the firefighter's, peace officer's, or emergency medical
personnel's employment.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a claim for workers' compensation benefits based on a
compensable injury that occurs on or after the effective date of
this Act. A claim based on a compensable injury that occurs before
that date is governed by the law as it existed on the date the
compensable injury occurred, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
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, 2023.