By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 988
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to state employee donations to sick leave pools.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 661.003, Government Code, is amended by
    1-4  amending Subsection (b) and by adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        (b)  On approval by the pool administrator, an employee may
    1-7  contribute <in a fiscal year at least> one or more <but not more
    1-8  than three> days of the employee's accrued sick leave.
    1-9        (d)  A retiring employee may designate the number of the
   1-10  retiring employee's accrued sick leave hours to be used for
   1-11  retirement credit and the number of the retiring employee's accrued
   1-12  sick leave hours to be donated on retirement to the sick leave
   1-13  pool.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.