Bill Text: TX HB3335 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 3335

Bill Title: Relating to employment activities of certain peace officers responding to an emergency call for purposes of the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective immediately [HB3335 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3335-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 3335




	AN ACT
	relating to employment activities of certain peace officers
	responding to an emergency call 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 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.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3335 was passed by the House on May
	12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3335 was passed by the Senate on May
	24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor