1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to employee benefits available to employees of community
1-3 supervision and corrections departments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 76.006, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), department
1-9 employees are not state employees. The department shall contract
1-10 for all employee benefits with one [the most populous] county
1-11 served by the department and designated for that purpose by the
1-12 district judge or judges [for insurance and retirement plans], and
1-13 the employees are governed by personnel policies and benefits
1-14 equal to personnel policies for and benefits of other employees of
1-15 that county.
1-16 (h) If under Subsection (a) the district judge or judges
1-17 change the designation of the county providing employee benefits,
1-18 the district judge or judges may not subsequently change that
1-19 designation before the 10th anniversary of the date on which the
1-20 previous designation was made.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1999 was passed by the House on May
4, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1999 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor