Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.057 · Subchapter B. LOCAL CONTROL OF POLICE OFFICER EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
STRIKES PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A police officer employed by a municipality may not engage in a strike or organized work stoppage against this state or the municipality.
(b) A police officer who participates in a strike forfeits any civil service rights, reemployment rights, and other rights, benefits, or privileges the police officer may have as a result of the officer's employment or prior employment with the municipality.
(c) This section does not affect the right of a person to cease work if the person is not acting in concert with others in an organized work stoppage.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1193 (H.B. 304), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.142.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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