Bill Text: TX HB3488 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to appeal of emergency medical services personnel employment termination to the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3488 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3488-Comm_Sub.html
By: Israel, Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 3488 |
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relating to appeal of emergency medical services personnel | ||
employment termination to the State Office of Administrative | ||
Hearings. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 180.008 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 180.008. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL: APPEAL | ||
OF TERMINATION TO STATE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS. (a) In | ||
this section: | ||
(1) "Emergency medical services personnel" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(2) "Municipality" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
1.005, Texas Local Government Code. | ||
(b) This section only applies to a municipality and | ||
emergency medical services personnel covered by Subchapter K, | ||
Chapter 143 | ||
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, an individual who is | ||
certified to practice as emergency medical services personnel and | ||
who is employed by a municipality covered by Texas Local Government | ||
Code Chapter 143 is entitled to appeal the withdrawal of the | ||
individual's authority to provide delegated medical care and | ||
subsequent termination of | ||
employment as an emergency medical | ||
services personnel by the municipality to the State Office of | ||
Administrative Hearings. | ||
(d) A municipality shall adopt procedures for referring | ||
appeals described under Subsection (b) consistent with procedures | ||
used under Section 2003.021(b)(4), Government Code, and any | ||
applicable rules adopted by the State Office of Administrative | ||
Hearings. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 180.008, Local Government Code, as added | ||
by this Act, applies only to an appeal of the withdrawal of an | ||
individual's authority to provide delegated medical care and | ||
subsequent termination of employment as an emergency medical | ||
services personnel that occurs after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |