85R18283 CJC-F
 
  By: Guillen H.B. No. 3066
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3066:
 
  By:  Gutierrez C.S.H.B. No. 3066
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain benefits and protections for service members of
  the Texas military forces ordered to state active duty or to state
  training and other duty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 437.213, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 437.213.  CERTAIN BENEFITS AND PROTECTIONS FOR STATE
  SERVICE.  A service member of the Texas military forces who is
  ordered to state active duty or to state training and other duty by
  the governor, the adjutant general, or another proper authority
  under the law of this state is entitled to the same benefits and
  protections provided to persons:
               (1)  performing service in the uniformed services as
  provided by 38 U.S.C. Sections 4301-4313 and 4316-4319[, as that
  law existed on April 1, 2003]; and
               (2)  in the military service of the United States as
  provided by 50 [App.] U.S.C. Sections 3901-3959, 3991, and
  4011-4026 [501-536, 560, and 580-594, as that law existed on April
  1, 2003].
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a service member of the Texas military forces who is serving on
  state active duty or on state training and other duty on the
  effective date of this Act or who is ordered to such duty on or after
  that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.