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City staff brief Public Safety Commission on 80th/89th Texas legislative actions affecting public safety
Summary
City intergovernmental-relations and law staff summarized bills from the regular and special legislative sessions, including firefighter pension reform, Austin’s collective-bargaining carveout, paramedic tuition exemptions and less-lethal defense changes.
Rick Ramirez, deputy intergovernmental relations officer for the City of Austin, and Chris Coppola from the city law department briefed the Public Safety Commission on key legislation from the 80th/89th regular and special sessions that the city is tracking.
Ramirez summarized major public-safety bills and city priorities. He said the Legislature and governor had concentrated on water and land-use issues but that many public-safety measures reached the finish line. He listed measures discussed during the briefing, including HB 2802 (firefighter retirement reform establishing actuarially determined contributions and new benefit…
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