Bill Text: TX HB3335 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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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-Engrossed.html
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-Engrossed.html
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By: Canales | H.B. No. 3335 |
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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. |