1-1 By: Telford (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 1999
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to employee benefits available to employees of community
1-9 supervision and corrections departments.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 76.006, Government Code, is amended by
1-12 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), department
1-15 employees are not state employees. The department shall contract
1-16 for all employee benefits with one [the most populous] county
1-17 served by the department and designated for that purpose by the
1-18 district judge or judges [for insurance and retirement plans], and
1-19 the employees are governed by personnel policies and benefits
1-20 equal to personnel policies for and benefits of other employees of
1-21 that county.
1-22 (h) If under Subsection (a) the district judge or judges
1-23 change the designation of the county providing employee benefits,
1-24 the district judge or judges may not subsequently change that
1-25 designation before the 10th anniversary of the date on which the
1-26 previous designation was made.
1-27 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33 passage, and it is so enacted.
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