BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 1107

By: Cole

Intergovernmental Affairs

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The bill author has informed the committee that Austin-Travis County EMS personnel are eligible for civil service status on the grounds that the city meets the applicable population threshold and operates under a city manager form of government. However, the bill author has also informed the committee that in May 2021 Austin voters rejected a proposal to change from a city manager form of government to a strong mayor-council form of government. Changing to that form of government would have excluded Austin-Travis County EMS from civil service status. H.B. 1107 seeks to ratify and preserve this status for Austin-Travis County EMS if Austin voters ever change the type of city government in the future.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 1107 amends the Local Government Code to make provisions governing the civil service status of emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in certain municipalities that currently apply to a municipality with a population of 460,000 or more that operates under a city manager form of government and employs EMS personnel in a municipal department other than the fire department applicable also to a municipality that meets that same population and employment criteria but that operated under a city manager form of government on the date the municipality adopted those provisions.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2025.