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2003S0362-1 02/24/03


By:  Janek                                                        S.B. No. 807


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to involuntary medical separation from employment of 
firefighters in certain cities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 143.1115, Local Government Code, is 
amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g)  A fire fighter who has suffered a line of duty illness or 
injury and who is determined under the procedure prescribed by this 
section to be unable to perform the fire fighter's duties or 
assignment may not be involuntarily medically separated from 
employment in the classified service if there is any other position 
within the fire department that the fire fighter is capable of 
performing.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.