By Ellis H.B. No. 2943 76R6892 GCH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to compensatory time accumulated by employees of the Texas 1-3 Department of Criminal Justice. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 493.0075 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 493.0075. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATORY TIME. (a) 1-8 Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the General 1-9 Appropriations Act or other law, an employee of the department who 1-10 accrues compensatory time and is unable to take the time off 1-11 because of the department's staffing requirements is not subject to 1-12 any limitation on the amount of unused compensatory time that may 1-13 be accumulated or transferred from one fiscal year to the next. 1-14 The department may deduct from an employee's accumulated 1-15 compensatory time only time the employee takes off. 1-16 (b) If an employee leaves employment with the department, 1-17 the department shall pay the employee or the employee's estate, as 1-18 applicable, for all the employee's unused compensatory time at a 1-19 rate equal to the hourly rate of pay earned by the employee on the 1-20 last day of employment with the department. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-22 applies only to compensatory time accrued by an employee of the 1-23 Texas Department of Criminal Justice while employed by the 1-24 department 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.