By Gallegos                                     S.B. No. 1025

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to assignment pay for fire fighters and police officers in

 1-3     certain municipalities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 143.113(b), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The municipality's governing body may authorize

 1-8     assignment pay for emergency ambulance attendants, field training

 1-9     officers, and hazardous materials response team personnel.  The

1-10     municipality's governing body may authorize assignment pay for fire

1-11     fighters or police officers who perform specialized functions in

1-12     their respective departments, including but not limited to career

1-13     patrol officers, aircraft fire fighting and rescue personnel, fire

1-14     fighters whose duties include first response for medical

1-15     emergencies, arson investigators, and fire prevention officers. The

1-16     assignment pay is in an amount and is payable under conditions set

1-17     by ordinance and is in addition to the regular pay received by

1-18     members of the fire department or police department.  The head of

1-19     the fire department or police department is not eligible for the

1-20     assignment pay authorized by this subsection.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.