By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 1570
       74R4111 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to workers' compensation insurance coverage for certain
    1-3  off-duty peace officers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 504, Labor Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 504.0145 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 504.0145.  COVERAGE BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES OF CERTAIN
    1-8  PEACE OFFICERS WHO PERFORM CERTAIN OFF-DUTY ACTIVITIES.  (a)  In
    1-9  this section, "peace officer" means a person elected, employed, or
   1-10  appointed as a peace officer under Article 2.12, Code of Criminal
   1-11  Procedure, or other law.
   1-12        (b)  This section applies to a municipality with a population
   1-13  of 1.5 million or more that requires a private business entity
   1-14  operating within the jurisdictional limits of the municipality to
   1-15  use the services of a uniformed off-duty peace officer to provide
   1-16  traffic control and other related services at a worksite of the
   1-17  private business entity.
   1-18        (c)  A municipality that requires workers' compensation
   1-19  insurance coverage to be provided to an off-duty peace officer for
   1-20  the period during which the officer is providing services to a
   1-21  private business entity under Subsection (b) shall pay the
   1-22  insurance premiums for that coverage.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-24  applies only to a workers' compensation insurance policy that is
    2-1  delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1,
    2-2  1996.  A policy that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed
    2-3  before January 1, 1996, is governed by the law as it existed
    2-4  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
    2-5  continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.