Emergency Responder Travel Bill Reported from Senate Committee
CSHB 2771 by Rep. Armando Martinez (D-Weslaco), which passed the House on April 28, 2015 in a record vote was reported favorably from the Senate Business & Commerce Committee on May 15, 2015. The bill has been recommended for the Local and Uncontested Calendar.
The bill provides that the travel of a firefighter or emergency medical personnel en route to an emergency call is considered to be in the course and scope of the firefighter’s or emergency medical personnel ’s employment. Language that would have placed the return trip home in the course and scope of employment was stripped from the bill in the House.
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