Re: HB435 Emergency Services Personnel
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:33 am
It was sent to Gov. for signing on 5/30. Does anyone have an update? I can't seem to find anything after 5/30.
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There isn't any press on this anywhere! If not read on this forum, I don't think anyone would even know about this! Very odd. Perhaps a hush hush kinda thing?parabelum wrote:It was sent to Gov. for signing on 5/30. Does anyone have an update? I can't seem to find anything after 5/30.
The best place to go for info is the TLO site:TreyHouston wrote:There isn't any press on this anywhere! If not read on this forum, I don't think anyone would even know about this! Very odd. Perhaps a hush hush kinda thing?parabelum wrote:It was sent to Gov. for signing on 5/30. Does anyone have an update? I can't seem to find anything after 5/30.
Thank you sir.Papa_Tiger wrote:The best place to go for info is the TLO site:TreyHouston wrote:There isn't any press on this anywhere! If not read on this forum, I don't think anyone would even know about this! Very odd. Perhaps a hush hush kinda thing?parabelum wrote:It was sent to Gov. for signing on 5/30. Does anyone have an update? I can't seem to find anything after 5/30.
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You can search for the bill by using the "Search Legislation" box in the middle of your screen. Just make sure that the "Legislature" box is set to 85(R) - 2017 and that the "Bill Number" radio button is selected.
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If the Governor doesn't veto it, HB435 will become law on June 18, 2017 with an effective date of September 1, 2017.
It's worthwhile work but I don't see the TSG in the HB435 text. Did it get added later? With the stipend for training and while activated, TSG wouldn't qualify as unpaid volunteers.locke_n_load wrote:Looks like I need to join the Texas State Guard soon.
TXSG recieves orders and provides security for civil purposes (loosely explained) and they do not recieve pay. Only pay is responding to actual emergencies (hurricanes and floods) do they get paid.Alf wrote:It's worthwhile work but I don't see the TSG in the HB435 text. Did it get added later? With the stipend for training and while activated, TSG wouldn't qualify as unpaid volunteers.locke_n_load wrote:Looks like I need to join the Texas State Guard soon.
I don't know if "stipend" would be the same as getting paid, as they only get that if "deployed" and seems more like a reimbursement to me. They pay for their own uniforms to my understanding, don't know who wouldn't consider them volunteers.Alf wrote:It's worthwhile work but I don't see the TSG in the HB435 text. Did it get added later? With the stipend for training and while activated, TSG wouldn't qualify as unpaid volunteers.locke_n_load wrote:Looks like I need to join the Texas State Guard soon.
I can't think of a group that meets the latter definition to a T.(18) "Volunteer emergency services personnel"
includes a volunteer firefighter, an emergency medical services
volunteer as defined by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code,
and any individual who, as a volunteer, provides services for the
benefit of the general public during emergency situations.
I think the Red Cross meets that definition to a T for the volunteers but not the paid employees.locke_n_load wrote:HB435 text:I can't think of a group that meets the latter definition to a T.(18) "Volunteer emergency services personnel"
includes a volunteer firefighter, an emergency medical services
volunteer as defined by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code,
and any individual who, as a volunteer, provides services for the
benefit of the general public during emergency situations.
HAM radio operatorslocke_n_load wrote: HB435 text:I can't think of a group that meets the latter definition to a T.(18) "Volunteer emergency services personnel"
includes a volunteer firefighter, an emergency medical services
volunteer as defined by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code,
and any individual who, as a volunteer, provides services for the
benefit of the general public during emergency situations.
Around Marble Falls, Central Texas/ Highland Lakes, I believe that several Hams (HLARC HIGHLAND LAKES AMATEUR RADIO CLUB meets at EMS in Marble Falls http://hlarc.org/ )loktite wrote:HAM radio operatorslocke_n_load wrote: HB435 text:I can't think of a group that meets the latter definition to a T.(18) "Volunteer emergency services personnel"
includes a volunteer firefighter, an emergency medical services
volunteer as defined by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code,
and any individual who, as a volunteer, provides services for the
benefit of the general public during emergency situations.
SRO1911 wrote:Join your local VFD, legitimate way to serve your community, excellent training, occasionally fun, occasionally terrifying.
I wasn't paid for helping neighbors after Ike, so I should qualify for the 30.06 loophole as much as any "paid volunteer" does, if not more.TreyHouston wrote:Only pay is responding to actual emergencies (hurricanes and floods) do they get paid.