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 Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014)
 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
 Title 5. MATTERS AFFECTING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
 Subtitle A. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
 Chapter 142. ASSISTANCE, BENEFITS, AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
 Subchapter D. LOCAL CONTROL OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES

  Sec. 142.153. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO AGREEMENTS  

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  • (a) A municipality may not be denied local control over wages, salaries, rates of pay, hours of employment, other terms and conditions of employment, or other personnel issues on which the public employer and an association that is recognized as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent under Section 142.155 for all emergency medical services personnel in the municipality agree. The applicable statutes, local ordinances, and civil service rules govern a term or condition of employment on which the public employer and the association do not agree.

    (b) An agreement under this subchapter must be written.

    (c) This subchapter does not require the public employer and an association to meet and confer or reach an agreement on any issue.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 187 , Sec. 1, eff. May 23, 2007.