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Senate Bill 2298 |
Senate Author: Watson |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Farabee |
Senate Bill 2298 amends the Government Code to remove a prohibition against a state employee's personal residence being considered the employee's regular or temporarily assigned place of employment. It authorizes an employee to accumulate compensatory time for hours worked during any calendar week at that residence if the employee obtains the advance approval of the employing agency's administrative head or designee. The bill authorizes a state employee who is not an employee of the legislative branch or lieutenant governor, with authorization from the administrative head or designee, to be paid for hours of compensatory time the employee earns for work directly related to a disaster or emergency declared by the appropriate officer of the state or federal government. It authorizes such an employee who is employed by a state mental health or mental retardation facility, with such authorization, to be paid for any unused compensatory time if the employing agency determines that taking the compensatory time off would disrupt the agency's normal business function. The bill specifies that the six-month limitations relating to merit salary increases and one-time merit payments do not apply if the agency's administrative head determines that the payment is made in relation to the employee's performance during a natural disaster or other extraordinary circumstance. The bill amends the Education Code similarly to specify that, for an employee who has been with an institution of higher education for more than six months, the requirement that six months elapse between merit salary increases does not apply to a one-time merit payment if the institution's chief administrative officer reaches a like determination relating to a natural disaster or extraordinary circumstance.
Other Government Code provisions entitle a retired judge appointed to a multidistrict litigation pretrial court to receive the same compensation and benefits to which a district judge is entitled.