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            |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
         
            |  | AN ACT | 
         
            |  | relating to applicability of civil service status to emergency | 
         
            |  | medical services personnel in certain municipalities. | 
         
            |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
            |  | SECTION 1.  Section 143.401(a), Local Government Code, is | 
         
            |  | amended to read as follows: | 
         
            |  | (a)  This subchapter applies only to a municipality: | 
         
            |  | (1)  with a population of 460,000 or more that: | 
         
            |  | (A)  operates under a city manager form of | 
         
            |  | government; or | 
         
            |  | (B)  operated under a city manager form of | 
         
            |  | government on the date the municipality adopted this subchapter; | 
         
            |  | and | 
         
            |  | (2)  that employs emergency medical services personnel | 
         
            |  | in a municipal department other than the fire department. | 
         
            |  | SECTION 2.  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, 2023. |