Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 482 amends the Government Code to add to the list of those persons eligible for certain state benefits the survivors of an individual employed or designated as the chaplain for a volunteer fire-fighting unit or other fire department, a law enforcement agency, or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who dies in the line of duty. The bill clarifies that the survivors are eligible if the listed public safety individual died as a result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty, and defines certain terms as they are used by the Employees Retirement System of Texas. The bill specifies that in determining whether the survivor is eligible for the payment of assistance, any reasonable doubt arising from the circumstances of the individual's death should be resolved in the survivor's favor.