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.
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