By:  Turner                                            S.B. No. 520
       73R4293 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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(a), Chapter 211, Acts of the 66th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 6252-20b, Vernon's
    1-7  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  All commissioned law enforcement personnel of the
    1-9  Department of Public Safety, <all commissioned law enforcement
   1-10  personnel of the State Purchasing and General Services Commission,>
   1-11  all commissioned security officers of the State Treasury, all
   1-12  commissioned law enforcement personnel of the Texas Alcoholic
   1-13  Beverage Commission, all law enforcement officers commissioned by
   1-14  the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, all commissioned peace
   1-15  officers of state institutions of higher education, all law
   1-16  enforcement personnel commissioned by the Texas Department of
   1-17  Criminal Justice <Corrections>, all employees or officials of the
   1-18  Board of Pardons and Paroles who have routine direct contact with
   1-19  inmates of any penal or correctional institution or with
   1-20  administratively released prisoners subject to the board's
   1-21  jurisdiction, all employees of the Texas Youth Commission who have
   1-22  routine direct contact with youth placed in a residential facility
   1-23  of the commission or with youth released under the commission's
   1-24  supervision, and all state employees certified as law enforcement
    2-1  officers or custodial officers under Section 815.505, Government
    2-2  Code <25.505, Title 110B, Revised Statutes>, are entitled to
    2-3  hazardous duty pay of $7 a month for each year of service as an
    2-4  employee of this state in a position that requires the performance
    2-5  of hazardous duty, up to and including 30 years in service.  Except
    2-6  as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, this hazardous duty
    2-7  pay is in lieu of existing hazardous duty or longevity pay.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.