Bill Text: TX HB1091 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to firefighters and emergency medical technicians who bring certain claims for benefits or compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-03 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB1091 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1091-Introduced.html
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| By: Martinez | H.B. No. 1091 | |
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| relating to firefighters and emergency medical technicians who | ||
| bring certain claims for benefits or compensation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 607.052(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other law, this subchapter applies | ||
| only to a firefighter or emergency medical technician who: | ||
| (1) on becoming employed, [ |
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| on leaving employment as a firefighter or emergency medical | ||
| technician, received a physical examination that failed to reveal | ||
| evidence of the illness or disease for which benefits or | ||
| compensation are sought using a presumption established by this | ||
| subchapter; | ||
| (2) is employed for five or more years as a firefighter | ||
| or emergency medical technician; and | ||
| (3) seeks benefits or compensation for a disease or | ||
| illness covered by this subchapter that is discovered during | ||
| employment as a firefighter or emergency medical technician or not | ||
| later than the fifth anniversary of the last date of employment as a | ||
| firefighter or emergency medical technician. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 607.052(a), Government Code, as amended | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a firefighter or emergency medical | ||
| technician who brings a claim for benefits or compensation on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. A firefighter or emergency | ||
| medical technician who brings a claim for benefits or compensation | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
| effect on the date the claim is made, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
