By Telford H.B. No. 1999
76R7495 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to insurance, retirement plans, and other employee
1-3 benefits available to employees of community supervision and
1-4 corrections departments.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 76.006(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-7 read as 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 insurance and retirement plans with a [the most populous]
1-11 county served by the department and designated for that purpose by
1-12 the district judge or judges [for insurance and retirement plans],
1-13 and 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 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.