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.