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.