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HB 0173 - Emergency Services Volunteer Employment Protection Act

Tracking Level: Monitor
Sponsor: Casey Snider
Last Action: 3/22/2019 - Governor Signed in Lieutenant Governor's office for filing
House Committee: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Senate Committee: Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice
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Staff Analysis of the Legislation

This bill adds a third part to Title 34, Labor in General, Chapter 53, to create the Emergency Services Volunteer Employment Protection Act. This bill protects volunteer firefighters, emergency medical service providers, and those mobilized as part of a possee comitatus that respond to an emergency situation and are then late to or absent from work from being terminated. An emergency services volunteer may bring a civil action against an employer that violates the bill.  


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