By: Rodriguez H.B. No. 2021
73R5242 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the provision of meals to certain employees of the
1-3 Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Section 493.013 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 493.013. EMPLOYEES' MEALS. (a) The department may
1-8 provide meals to department employees who reside in employee
1-9 dormitories or work inside units of the institutional division at a
1-10 cost of not less than $1 per meal.
1-11 (b) The department may reimburse a department employee on
1-12 travel status for not more than two meals per shift, in an amount
1-13 per meal established by the General Appropriations Act.
1-14 (c) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice employee meal
1-15 account is established in the general revenue fund. The department
1-16 shall deposit all money paid by department employees for meals
1-17 under Subsection (a) in the account. The legislature may
1-18 appropriate money in the account only for the purpose of preparing
1-19 and providing meals for employees as provided by Subsection (a).
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 494.007, Government Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 494.007. Employees' Salaries, LODGING, <Room> and
1-23 <Board,> Medical Care. (a) Salaries of employees of the
1-24 institutional division and the provision of <board,> lodging,
2-1 uniforms, and other provisions to employees are as provided by the
2-2 General Appropriations Act.
2-3 (b) Employees of the institutional division who are injured
2-4 in the line of duty are entitled to receive free medical care and
2-5 hospitalization from division doctors and the division hospital.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.