79R14186 YDB-F
By: Howard H.B. No. 3057
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the number of hours worked by a part-time fire
protection employee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 419.0321(e), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) A part-time fire protection employee may not:
(1) work more than 24 hours a week or average more than
approximately 24 hours a week during a work cycle, as appropriate,
for an employing fire department; or
(2) work in duties related to fire suppression more
than:
(A) 500 hours a year for an employing fire
department, except as provided by Paragraph (B); or
(B) 750 hours a year, excluding training hours
but including hours in which the fire protection employee is on duty
at the fire station, for an employing fire department with fewer
than 10 full-time firefighters in a municipality with a population
of less than 30,000 that has not adopted Chapter 143, Local
Government Code, or is not covered by a collective bargaining
agreement between the municipality and the full-time firefighters
employed by the municipality [in duties related to fire
suppression].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.