By Sibley S.B. No. 988
74R4911 MJW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to state employee donations to sick leave pools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 661.003, Government Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (b) On approval by the pool administrator, an employee may
1-8 contribute <in a fiscal year at least> one or more <but not more
1-9 than three> days of the employee's accrued sick leave.
1-10 (d) A retiring employee may designate the number of the
1-11 retiring employee's accrued sick leave hours to be used for
1-12 retirement credit and the number of the retiring employee's accrued
1-13 sick leave hours to be donated on retirement to the sick leave
1-14 pool.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.