Bill Text: TX HB2957 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to periodic occupational cancer screenings for firefighters.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-01 - Referred to Local Government [HB2957 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2957-Introduced.html
  88R13477 AMF-D
 
  By: Bumgarner H.B. No. 2957
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to periodic occupational cancer screenings for
  firefighters.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended
  by adding Section 180.010 to read as follows:
         Sec. 180.010.  OCCUPATIONAL CANCER SCREENING FOR
  FIREFIGHTERS. (a)  In this section, "firefighter" means an
  individual defined as fire protection personnel under Section
  419.021, Government Code.
         (b)  A political subdivision that employs firefighters shall
  offer an occupational cancer screening to each firefighter at no
  cost to the firefighter in the seventh year of the firefighter's
  employment, and once every three years following the initial
  screening.
         (c)  The occupational cancer screening must be confidential
  and test for each type of cancer, including:
               (1)  prostate cancer, if applicable;
               (2)  lung cancer; and
               (3)  brain cancer.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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