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               AN ACT
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            relating to the salary of certain employees who transfer within a  | 
         
         
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            state agency. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 659, Government Code, is  | 
         
         
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            amended by adding Section 659.2532 to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   Sec. 659.2532.  TRANSFER WITHIN AGENCY BETWEEN CLASSIFIED  | 
         
         
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            POSITIONS WITH SAME POSITION TITLE WHEN EMPLOYEE IS COMPETITIVELY  | 
         
         
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            SELECTED.  (a)  In this section, "classified position" means a  | 
         
         
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            position classified under the state's position classification  | 
         
         
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            plan. | 
         
         
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                   (b)  A state employee's annual salary rate immediately after  | 
         
         
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            a transfer may be set at any rate in the appropriate salary group if  | 
         
         
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            the employee: | 
         
         
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                         (1)  transfers within a state agency between two  | 
         
         
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            classified positions that: | 
         
         
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                               (A)  are allocated to the same salary group; and | 
         
         
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                               (B)  have the same position title as listed in the  | 
         
         
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            General Appropriations Act; | 
         
         
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                         (2)  transfers to a position for which the employment  | 
         
         
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            opening is publicly listed in accordance with Chapter 656; | 
         
         
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                         (3)  voluntarily applies for the position to which the  | 
         
         
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            employee transfers; and | 
         
         
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                         (4)  agrees to accept the position to which the  | 
         
         
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            employee transfers at the publicly listed salary. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  Section 659.2532, Government Code, as added by  | 
         
         
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            this Act, applies only to a transfer of position that takes effect  | 
         
         
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            on or after September 1, 2023.  A transfer of position that takes  | 
         
         
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            effect before September 1, 2023, is governed by the law in effect on  | 
         
         
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            the effective date of the transfer, and the former law is continued  | 
         
         
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            in effect for that purpose. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 2157 was passed by the House on April  | 
         
         
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            20, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 3, 2 present, not  | 
         
         
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            voting. | 
         
         
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            Chief Clerk of the House    | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 2157 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
         
         
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            19, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate     | 
         
         
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                             Governor        |