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TSAFF Legislative Watch
Here’s a list of bills we’re sponsoring and monitoring in the 89th Session.
Updated: March 17, 2025
HB 331 (Patterson) / SB 1932 (C. Hinojosa)
Firefighter Presumption Bill
Strengthens protections for heart attacks, stroke, and cancer.
Firefighter Bill of Rights
This bill would ensure a firefighter has certain basic rights in disciplinary investigations.
Binding Arbitration
This bill would keep disputes over firefighter contracts out of court by mandating a system of arbitration that binds both parties.
Female Firefighter Cancer Study
This bill studies cancer amongst women in the fire service.
HB 1593 (Campos) / SB 1131 (Middleton)
Suicide Prevention / Peer Support Study
These bills would create a study group to help model future legislation and offer fire departments advice to prevent first responder suicides and treat common mental health issues.
HB 2713 (Darby) / SB 1331 (Hancock)
Civil Service Repeal
These bills would prevent extremist groups from calling endless voter referendums to strip first responders of basic employment rights that their community has guaranteed them.
HB 2009 (Hernandez) / HB 198 (Bumgarner) / SB 1545 (A. Hinojosa)
Medical Evaluations for Firefighters
These bills would guarantee that firefighters would be provided an opportunity to receive a medical evaluation for diseases that are often caused by their duty.
Increasing Educational Options for First Responders
Exempting first responders for taking the Texas Success Initiative at centers of higher education.
Firefighters Military Leave
This bill would modify military leave to better mesh with the schedules that firefighters work and prevent them from using vacation and sick leave to meet their requirements.
Critical Illness Supplemental Insurance
This bill would ensure that firefighters that have retired are able to get treatment benefits for illnesses that were caused by their duty.
Emergency Service District (ESD) Employment Agreements
This bill would allow firefighters and an ESD the ability to enter into an employment contract related to benefits and conditions of duty.
