By: Luna S.B. No. 660
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the operation of a county sick leave pool program.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 157.071, Local
1-4 Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (2) "Employee" means a district, county, or precinct
1-6 employee with 12 or more months of continuous employment with the
1-7 district, county, or precinct who is paid from the general fund of
1-8 the county, from a special fund of the county, or from special
1-9 grants paid through the county.
1-10 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 157.074, Local Government
1-11 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) On approval by the administrator, in a fiscal year the
1-13 employee may transfer to the county sick leave pool not less than
1-14 one day or more than five [three] days of accrued sick leave time,
1-15 or accrued vacation leave time in a county operating under Section
1-16 157.072(b), earned by the employee. The administrator shall credit
1-17 the pool with the amount of time contributed by the employee and
1-18 shall deduct the same amount of time from the amount to which the
1-19 employee is entitled, as if the employee had used the time for
1-20 personal purposes.
1-21 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 157.075, Local Government
1-22 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (a) An employee is eligible to use time contributed to the
2-1 county sick leave pool if, because of a catastrophic injury or
2-2 illness [or because of a previous donation of sick leave time to
2-3 the pool], the employee has exhausted all the accrued paid leave
2-4 and compensatory [sick leave] time to which the employee is
2-5 otherwise entitled.
2-6 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-7 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.