By Ellis H.B. No. 2590 76R6241 GCH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to compensatory time accumulated by state employees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 661, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 661.152 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 661.152. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATORY TIME. (a) In this 1-7 section "employee" and "state agency" have the meanings assigned by 1-8 Section 661.001. 1-9 (b) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the General 1-10 Appropriations Act or other law, an employee of a state agency who 1-11 accrues compensatory time and is unable to take the time off 1-12 because of the agency's staffing requirements is not subject to any 1-13 limitation on the amount of unused compensatory time that may be 1-14 accumulated or transferred from one fiscal year to the next. The 1-15 state agency may deduct from an employee's accumulated compensatory 1-16 time only time the employee takes off. 1-17 (c) If an employee leaves employment with the state agency, 1-18 the agency shall pay the employee or the employee's estate, as 1-19 applicable, for all the employee's unused compensatory time at a 1-20 rate equal to the hourly rate of pay earned by the employee on the 1-21 last day of employment with the agency. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-23 applies only to compensatory time accrued by an employee of a state 1-24 agency while employed by the agency on or after that date. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.