Bill Text: TX SB1258 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain retired firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical services providers to purchase continued health benefits coverage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Local Government [SB1258 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1258-Introduced.html
| 88R768 SCL-F | ||
| By: Creighton | S.B. No. 1258 | |
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| relating to the eligibility of certain retired firefighters, police | ||
| officers, and emergency medical services providers to purchase | ||
| continued health benefits coverage. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 175.001, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 175.001. APPLICABILITY. (a) In this section, | ||
| "township" means a special district with territory that only | ||
| includes a census designated place, as designated by the United | ||
| States Bureau of the Census. | ||
| (b) This chapter applies to a person who: | ||
| (1) retires from: | ||
| (A) county employment in a county with a | ||
| population of 75,000 or more; | ||
| (B) employment by an appraisal district in a | ||
| county with a population of 75,000 or more; | ||
| (C) municipal employment in a municipality with a | ||
| population of 25,000 or more; [ |
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| (D) employment as a firefighter or emergency | ||
| medical services provider by an emergency services district located | ||
| wholly or partly in a county with a population of 150,000 or more; | ||
| or | ||
| (E) employment as a firefighter, police officer, | ||
| or emergency medical services provider by a township with a | ||
| population of 110,000 or more; and | ||
| (2) is entitled to receive retirement benefits from a | ||
| county, appraisal district, or municipal retirement plan, [ |
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| emergency services district, or township. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Chapter 175, Local Government Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies according to its terms to all eligible | ||
| persons who leave employment with a township on or after January 1, | ||
| 2024. | ||
| (b) A township that is required by Chapter 175, Local | ||
| Government Code, as amended by this Act, to provide continued | ||
| health benefits coverage but that is not allowed to provide the | ||
| coverage under the terms of the township's existing group health | ||
| plan shall ensure that the required continued health benefits | ||
| coverage is provided for in any new plan that is adopted by the | ||
| township on or after January 1, 2024, unless the township is | ||
| exempted under Section 175.007, Local Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
