By Harris H.B. No. 1144 74R2619 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to workers' compensation insurance coverage for certain 1-3 volunteer emergency medical technicians. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 504.012(a), Labor Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) A political subdivision may cover volunteer fire 1-8 fighters, police officers, emergency medical personnel, and other 1-9 volunteers that are specifically named. If the political 1-10 subdivision elects to cover volunteer fire fighters and police 1-11 officers, it must also cover volunteer emergency medical personnel. 1-12 A person covered under this subsection is entitled to full medical 1-13 benefits and the minimum compensation payments under the law. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.