Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 174.021 · Subchapter B. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND RIGHT TO ORGANIZE
PREVAILING WAGE AND WORKING CONDITIONS REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A political subdivision that employs fire fighters, police officers, or both, shall provide those employees with compensation and other conditions of employment that are:
(1) substantially equal to compensation and other conditions of employment that prevail in comparable employment in the private sector; and
(2) based on prevailing private sector compensation and conditions of employment in the labor market area in other jobs that require the same or similar skills, ability, and training and may be performed under the same or similar conditions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.174.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
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 174.021. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 174.022CERTAIN PUBLIC EMPLOYERS CONSIDERED TO BE IN COMPLIANCE.Printed as Section 174.021
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 174.156SCOPE OF ARBITRATION.Printed as Section 174.021
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 174.252JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT WHEN PUBLIC EMPLOYER DECLINES ARBITRATION.Printed as Section 174.021
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