1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 988
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 9, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 21, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12,
1-5 Nays 0; April 21, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to state employee donations to sick leave pools.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 661.003, Government Code, is amended by
1-11 amending Subsection (b) and by adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (b) On approval by the pool administrator, an employee may
1-14 contribute <in a fiscal year at least> one or more <but not more
1-15 than three> days of the employee's accrued sick leave.
1-16 (d) A retiring employee may designate the number of the
1-17 retiring employee's accrued sick leave hours to be used for
1-18 retirement credit and the number of the retiring employee's accrued
1-19 sick leave hours to be donated on retirement to the sick leave
1-20 pool.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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