1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 496 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 7, 1995; February 8, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; February 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; February 15, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the contribution of vacation leave time by certain 1-9 county employees to a county sick leave pool. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 157.072, Local Government Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 157.072. Authority to Establish Program for Sick Leave 1-14 Pool. (a) The commissioners court of a county may establish a 1-15 program within the county to allow an employee to voluntarily 1-16 transfer sick leave time earned by the employee to a county sick 1-17 leave pool. 1-18 (b) The commissioners court of a county with a population of 1-19 1.18 million or more may allow an employee to voluntarily transfer 1-20 vacation leave time earned by the employee to a county sick leave 1-21 pool. 1-22 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 157.074, Local Government 1-23 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-24 (b) On approval by the administrator, in a fiscal year the 1-25 employee may transfer to the county sick leave pool not less than 1-26 one day or more than three days of accrued sick leave time, or 1-27 accrued vacation leave time in a county operating under Section 1-28 157.072(b), earned by the employee. The administrator shall credit 1-29 the pool with the amount of time contributed by the employee and 1-30 shall deduct the same amount of time from the amount to which the 1-31 employee is entitled, as if the employee had used the time for 1-32 personal purposes. 1-33 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-34 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-39 * * * * *