Bill Text: TX HB1790 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to job performance on behalf of a fire fighter or police officer who is recovering from an off-duty injury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1790-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1790 |
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relating to job performance on behalf of a fire fighter or police | ||
officer who is recovering from an off-duty injury. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 143.073(d), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) If a fire fighter or police officer is temporarily | ||
disabled by an injury or illness that is not related to the person's | ||
line of duty, the person may: | ||
(1) use all sick leave, vacation time, and other | ||
accumulated time before the person is placed on temporary leave; or | ||
(2) have another fire fighter or police officer | ||
volunteer to do the person's work while the person is temporarily | ||
disabled by the injury or illness. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1790 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1790 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |