Bill Text: TX HB792 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use an alternate work schedule for police dispatchers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB792-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use an alternate work schedule for police dispatchers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB792-Introduced.html
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By: Burns | H.B. No. 792 |
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relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use an | ||
alternate work schedule for police dispatchers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 142.0015, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: | ||
(k) For purposes of this subsection, "police dispatcher" | ||
means an operator or dispatcher employed by a municipal police | ||
department who provides communication support services for the | ||
police department by responding to requests for assistance. If a | ||
majority of police dispatchers for a municipal police department | ||
vote in favor of an alternate work schedule, the municipality may | ||
adopt an alternate work schedule for the department's dispatchers. | ||
A dispatcher working under an alternate work schedule adopted under | ||
this subsection is entitled to overtime pay if the dispatcher works | ||
more hours during a calendar month than the number of hours in the | ||
normal work month of the majority of the employees of the | ||
municipality other than fire fighters and police officers. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |