Bill Text: TX HB2782 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a fire department under municipal civil service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB2782 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2782-Introduced.html

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88R10233 MZM-D
By: Shine H.B. No. 2782

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a fire
department under municipal civil service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 143.023(a) and (c), Local Government
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A person may not take an entrance examination for a
beginning position in a [the] police or fire department unless the
person is at least 18 years of age. [A person may not take an
entrance examination for a beginning position in the fire
department unless the person is at least 18 years of age but not 36
years of age or older.]
(c) A person who is 45 years of age or older may not be
certified for a beginning position in a police or fire department.
SECTION 2. Section 143.083(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) If a municipality is unable to recruit qualified fire
fighters or police officers because of the maximum age limit
prescribed by Section 143.023 and the municipality's governing body
finds that this inability creates an emergency, the commission
shall recommend to the governing body additional rules governing
the temporary employment of persons who are 45 [36] years of age or
older.
SECTION 3. Section 143.023(b), Local Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. 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.