Bill Text: TX HB534 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of emergency service dispatchers to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB534 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB534-Introduced.html

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86R4844 MEW-D
By: Geren H.B. No. 534

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of emergency service dispatchers to
participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 129.001, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 129.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "public safety
employee" means a peace officer, firefighter, detention officer,
county jailer, [or] emergency medical services employee, or
emergency service dispatcher of this state or a political
subdivision of this state.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
person who, on or after the effective date of this Act, enters a
public safety employees treatment court program created under
Chapter 129, Government Code, regardless of whether the person
entering the program committed the offense for which the person
enters the program before, on, or after the effective date of this
Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.