Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.155 · Subchapter D. LOCAL CONTROL OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
RECOGNITION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of a municipality may recognize an association that submits a petition signed by a majority of the emergency medical services personnel in the municipality, excluding the head of the emergency medical services department and any person who is exempt under Subsection (b), as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all of the covered emergency medical services personnel until recognition of the association is withdrawn by a majority of the covered emergency medical services personnel.
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a), exempt employees are assistant department heads in the rank or classification immediately below that of the department head and any other employees who are designated as exempt or whose job titles are designated as exempt by the mutual agreement of the recognized association and the public employer.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 187 (S.B. 1104), Sec. 1, eff. May 23, 2007.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 15.003, eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.142.htm
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Cited by 7 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.155. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.153GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO AGREEMENTS.Printed as Section 142.155
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.154STRIKES PROHIBITED.Printed as Section 142.155
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.156ELECTION.Printed as Section 142.155
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.1565ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE OPERATING UNDER THIS SUBCHAPTER.Printed as Section 142.155
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.159RATIFICATION AND ENFORCEABILITY OF AGREEMENT.Printed as Section 142.155
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.160AGREEMENT SUPERSEDES CONFLICTING PROVISIONS.Printed as Section 142.155
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.1605ACTION OR ELECTION TO REPEAL AUTHORIZATION TO OPERATE UNDER THIS SUBCHAPTER.Printed as Section 142.155
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