S.B. No. 496
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the contribution of vacation leave time by certain
    1-2  county employees to a county sick leave pool.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 157.072, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 157.072.  Authority to Establish Program for Sick Leave
    1-7  Pool.  (a)  The commissioners court of a county may establish a
    1-8  program within the county to allow an employee to voluntarily
    1-9  transfer sick leave time earned by the employee to a county sick
   1-10  leave pool.
   1-11        (b)  The commissioners court of a county with a population of
   1-12  one million or more may allow an employee to voluntarily transfer
   1-13  vacation leave time earned by the employee to a county sick leave
   1-14  pool.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 157.074, Local Government
   1-16  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-17        (b)  On approval by the administrator, in a fiscal year the
   1-18  employee may transfer to the county sick leave pool not less than
   1-19  one day or more than three days of accrued sick leave time, or
   1-20  accrued vacation leave time in a county operating under Section
   1-21  157.072(b), earned by the employee.  The administrator shall credit
   1-22  the pool with the amount of time contributed by the employee and
   1-23  shall deduct the same amount of time from the amount to which the
   1-24  employee is entitled, as if the employee had used the time for
    2-1  personal purposes.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.