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Senate Bill 1474 |
Senate Author: Nichols |
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Effective: 9-1-09 |
House Sponsor: McReynolds |
Senate Bill 1474 amends the Government Code to authorize a state employee who is emergency services personnel as defined in the bill, who is not subject to the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and who is not an employee of the legislature, to be allowed to take compensatory time off during the 18-month period following the end of the workweek in which the compensatory time was accrued. The bill authorizes the administrative head of a state agency that employs such an employee to pay the employee overtime at the employee's regular hourly salary rate for all or part of the hours of compensatory time off accrued by the employee during a declared disaster in the preceding 18-month period and requires the administrative head to reduce the employee's compensatory time balance by one hour for each hour the employee is paid overtime.