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.