Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 174.205 · Subchapter F. STRIKES; LOCKOUTS
STRIKE; PENALTY AGAINST INDIVIDUAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If a fire fighter or police officer engages in a strike, interferes with the municipality, prevents the municipality from engaging in its duty, directs any employee of the municipality to decline to work or to stop or slow down work, causes another to fail or refuse to deliver goods or services to the municipality, pickets for any of those unlawful acts, or conspires to perform any of those acts:
(1) the fire fighter's or police officer's compensation in any form may not increase in any manner until after the first anniversary of the date the individual resumes normal working duties; and
(2) the fire fighter or police officer shall be on probation for two years regarding civil service status, tenure of employment, or contract of employment to which the individual was previously entitled.
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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- sha256 a4b44296f10296c84e19685c65e0e7e25ed9b14a1ac7e5b1da4a88efcd7c232f
- Composed by
- 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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