SRC-PNG S.B. 672 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 672
76R6420 BDH-DBy: Moncrief
Finance
3/30/1999
Committee Report (Amended)


DIGEST 

Currently, under Texas law, a state employee has one calendar year to
return to service before sick leave is removed.  This bill would restore
lost sick leave to those former state employees returning to state
employment who left for less than one year prior to the current policy of
being able to retain sick leave for up to one calendar year, and as a
result lost their accumulated sick leave. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 672 restores lost sick leave to former state employees
returning to state employment. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Requires a state agency to restore a sick leave balance
accumulated before September 1, 1991, for any person currently employed by
the agency who forfeited a sick leave balance as a result of leaving
employment with a state agency before September 1, 1991, under certain
conditions. Requires a person to provide the agency employing the person
with evidence establishing that the person is entitled to have the sick
leave balance restored.  Requires a lost sick leave balance to be restored
in its entirety, less any amount of the lost sick leave previously restored
in any state employment.  Authorizes a person to have a lost sick leave
balance restored only if the person would have been entitled to have the
sick leave balance restored under the General Appropriations Act if that
Act had been in effect when the person entered employment with the agency
currently employing the person.  Expiration date: September 1, 2000. 

SECTION 2. Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.
  

SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

SECTION 1.

Amends SECTION 1(a) to require a state agency to restore a sick leave
balance accumulated before a certain date for any person currently employed
by the agency who forfeited a sick leave balance as a result of leaving
employment with a state agency before a certain date, if the person was not
employed by any state agency for at least a month and entered employment
with another state agency, rather than the agency currently employing the
person, not later than one year after the date the person's prior
employment with a state agency ended.