Texas Government Code Title 6, Chapter 607 - Benefits Relating To Certain Diseases And Illnesses

SUBCHAPTER A CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

• Texas Section 607.001 - Definition
  In this chapter, "public safety employee" means a peace officer, fire fighter, detention officer, county jailer, or emergency medical services employee of this state or...
• Texas Section 607.002 - Reimbursement
  A public safety employee who is exposed to a contagious disease is entitled to reimbursement from the employing governmental entity for reasonable medical expenses incurred...
• Texas Section 607.003 - Physician Of Choice
  A public safety employee who is exposed to a disease described by Section 607.002 is entitled to be treated for the prevention of that disease...

SUBCHAPTER B DISEASES OR ILLNESSES SUFFERED BY

• Texas Section 607.004 - Preventative Immunizations And Vaccinations
  (a) A certified fire fighter or other governmental employee who operates an ambulance or who responds to emergency medical calls is entitled to preventative immunization...
• Texas Section 607.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Disability" means partial or total disability. (2) "Emergency medical technician" means an individual who is certified as an emergency medical technician...
• Texas Section 607.052 - Applicability
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, this subchapter applies only to a firefighter or emergency medical technician who: (1) on becoming employed or during employment as...
• Texas Section 607.053 - Immunization; Smallpox
  (a) A firefighter or emergency medical technician is presumed to have suffered a disability or death during the course and scope of employment if the...
• Texas Section 607.054 - Tuberculosis Or Other Respiratory Illness
  A firefighter or emergency medical technician who suffers from tuberculosis, or any other disease or illness of the lungs or respiratory tract that has a...
• Texas Section 607.055 - Cancer
  (a) A firefighter or emergency medical technician who suffers from cancer resulting in death or total or partial disability is presumed to have developed the...
• Texas Section 607.056 - Acute Myocardial Infarction Or Stroke
  (a) A firefighter or emergency medical technician who suffers an acute myocardial infarction or stroke resulting in disability or death is presumed to have suffered...
• Texas Section 607.057 - Effect Of Presumption
  Except as provided by Section 607.052(b), a presumption established under this subchapter applies to a determination of whether a firefighter's or emergency medical technician's disability...
• Texas Section 607.058 - Presumption Rebuttable
  (a) A presumption under Section 607.053, 607.054, 607.055, or 607.056 may be rebutted through a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that a risk...

SUBCHAPTER C OTHER DISEASES OR ILLNESSES SUFFERED BY FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS

• Texas Section 607.059 - Prohibited Payment
  No payment shall be made to the subsequent injury fund under Section 403.007, Labor Code, for any death resulting from a disease or illness presumed...
• Texas Section 607.101 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Emergency medical technician" means an individual who is certified as an emergency medical technician by the Department of State Health Services...
• Texas Section 607.102 - Notification
  An emergency response employee or volunteer, as defined by Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code, who is exposed to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or a disease...

Last modified: September 28, 2016