Bill Text: TX HB2701 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that individuals joining the Texas National Guard sign a notice regarding active combat duty.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-21 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB2701 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2701-Comm_Sub.html
By: Slaton, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hall) | H.B. No. 2701 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021; | ||
May 13, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the requirement that individuals joining the Texas | ||
National Guard sign a notice regarding active combat duty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 437.007, Government Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 437.007. ENLISTMENT AND APPOINTMENT; NOTICE. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 437.007, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) Before an individual may enlist in or accept an | ||
appointment with the Texas National Guard, the individual shall | ||
sign the following written notice that is printed in 24-point | ||
bold-faced type: | ||
BY JOINING THE TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD I UNDERSTAND THAT I MAY BE | ||
CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY BY THE PRESIDENT TO SERVE ON ACTIVE COMBAT | ||
DUTY IN A WAR DECLARED BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS OR IN ANOTHER ARMED | ||
CONFLICT AS ORDERED BY THE PRESIDENT. ACTIVE COMBAT DUTY MAY | ||
INCLUDE: | ||
(1) PARTICIPATING IN AN ARMED CONFLICT; | ||
(2) PERFORMING A HAZARDOUS SERVICE; | ||
(3) PERFORMING A DUTY UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING WAR; | ||
AND | ||
(4) PERFORMING A DUTY THROUGH AN INSTRUMENTALITY OF | ||
WAR. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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