1-1 By: Luna S.B. No. 660
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 19, 1997; February 24, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 1, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the operation of a county sick leave pool program.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 157.071, Local
1-11 Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (2) "Employee" means a district, county, or precinct
1-13 employee with 12 or more months of continuous employment with the
1-14 district, county, or precinct who is paid from the general fund of
1-15 the county, from a special fund of the county, or from special
1-16 grants paid through the county.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 157.074, Local Government
1-18 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (b) On approval by the administrator, in a fiscal year the
1-20 employee may transfer to the county sick leave pool not less than
1-21 one day or more than five [three] days of accrued sick leave time,
1-22 or accrued vacation leave time in a county operating under Section
1-23 157.072(b), earned by the employee. The administrator shall credit
1-24 the pool with the amount of time contributed by the employee and
1-25 shall deduct the same amount of time from the amount to which the
1-26 employee is entitled, as if the employee had used the time for
1-27 personal purposes.
1-28 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 157.075, Local Government
1-29 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-30 (a) An employee is eligible to use time contributed to the
1-31 county sick leave pool if, because of a catastrophic injury or
1-32 illness [or because of a previous donation of sick leave time to
1-33 the pool], the employee has exhausted all the accrued paid leave
1-34 and compensatory [sick leave] time to which the employee is
1-35 otherwise entitled.
1-36 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-37 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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