H.B. No. 819 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to hazardous duty pay for certain employees of the Texas 1-3 Youth Commission. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 211, Acts of the 66th 1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 6252-20b, Vernon's 1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read 1-8 as follows: 1-9 (d)(1) An employee of the Texas Youth Commission, other than 1-10 agency central office employees or employees whose work in an 1-11 agency facility involves only occasional contact with youth, who 1-12 has routine direct contact with youth placed in a residential 1-13 facility of the commission or with youth released under the 1-14 commission's supervision may receive hazardous duty pay in an 1-15 amount that does not exceed the amount authorized by Subsection (a) 1-16 of this section, subject to any condition or limitation related to 1-17 receipt of the hazardous duty pay prescribed by: 1-18 (A) Subsections (a)-(c) of this section; or 1-19 (B) the General Appropriations Act. 1-20 (2) No hazardous duty payments shall be made from 1-21 funds authorized for payment of across-the-board employee salary 1-22 increases. The receipt of hazardous duty pay under this subsection 1-23 does not qualify an employee for retirement benefits from the law 1-24 enforcement and custodial officer supplemental retirement fund. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.