IMF H.B. 790 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


STATE AFFAIRS
H.B. 790
By: Gallego
4-10-97
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND 

Under current law, Department of Public Safety employees are paid once a
month. Employees of the Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation, the Department of Transportation, Department of Human
Services, and the Workforce Commission receive pay twice a month.  The
comptroller has authority to designate other state agency employees to be
paid twice a month. The statute requires that employee must hold a
classified position under group 12 according to the salary schedule in the
General Appropriations Act and that at least 30 percent of the eligible
employees of an agency designated to be paid twice a month choose to be
paid twice a month. 

PURPOSE

Entitles Department of Public Safety employees to be paid twice a month
rather than once a month. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 659.082, Subtitle B, Title 6, Government Code,
to provide that employees of the Department of Public Safety are
compensated twice a month.   

SECTION 2. Effective Date:  September 1, 1997.  Applies to compensation
for a pay period that begins on or after that date. 

SECTION 3. Emergency Clause.