Bill Text: TX HB354 | 2027-2028 | 90th Legislature Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to county funding of volunteer fire departments that receive money from an emergency services district.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-11-09 - Filed [HB354 Detail]
Download: Texas-2027-HB354-Introduced.html
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| By: Holt | H.B. No. 354 | |
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| relating to county funding of volunteer fire departments that | ||
| receive money from an emergency services district. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 130, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 130.915 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 130.915. COUNTY FUNDING OF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS | ||
| RECEIVING MONEY FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICTS. (a) In this | ||
| section, "volunteer fire department" means an association that: | ||
| (1) operates fire-fighting equipment; | ||
| (2) is organized primarily to provide and actively | ||
| provides fire-fighting services; | ||
| (3) does not pay its members compensation other than | ||
| nominal compensation; and | ||
| (4) does not distribute any of its income to its | ||
| members, officers, or governing body, other than for reimbursement | ||
| of expenses. | ||
| (b) A county may not provide funding to a volunteer fire | ||
| department if the department has received money from an emergency | ||
| services district within the preceding county fiscal year. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 130.915, Local Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a contract between a volunteer fire | ||
| department and a county entered into on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2027. | ||
