Bill Text: TX HB1661 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a police department under municipal civil service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1661 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1661-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1661 | ||
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| relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a police | ||
| department under municipal civil service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 143.023(c), Local Government Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 2. The heading to Section 143.083, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 143.083. EMERGENCY APPOINTMENT OF TEMPORARY FIRE | ||
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| SECTION 3. Section 143.083(a), Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) If a municipality is unable to recruit qualified fire | ||
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| prescribed by Section 143.023 and the municipality's governing body | ||
| finds that this inability creates an emergency, the commission | ||
| shall recommend to the governing body additional rules governing | ||
| the temporary employment of persons who are 36 years of age or | ||
| older. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 143.084, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 143.084. CIVIL SERVICE STATUS AND PENSION BENEFITS FOR | ||
| CERTAIN FIRE FIGHTERS [ |
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| continuously employed as a temporary employee under the provision | ||
| codified as Section 143.083 has the full status of a civil service | ||
| employee with all the rights and privileges granted by Section | ||
| 143.005. | ||
| (b) A fire fighter [ |
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| (a) is eligible to participate in earned pension benefits. The | ||
| person may buy back service credits in the pension fund in which the | ||
| permanent fire fighters [ |
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| participated since that person's employment. The credits may be | ||
| bought at a rate determined by the actuary of the affected pension | ||
| fund. | ||
| SECTION 5. Section 143.084, Local Government Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, does not affect the civil service status or | ||
| eligibility for pension benefits of a police officer to whom that | ||
| section applied immediately before the effective date of this Act. | ||
| The civil service status and eligibility for pension benefits of a | ||
| police officer to whom that section applied is governed by the law | ||
| in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1661 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1661 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
