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79R14186 YDB-F


By:  Howard                                                       H.B. No. 3057

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3057:                                   

By:  Wong                                                     C.S.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.