By West H.B. No. 3150 76R3752 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to service credit in the Teacher Retirement System of 1-3 Texas for accumulated personal or sick leave. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 823, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 823.4031 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 823.4031. RESERVATION OF ACCUMULATED PERSONAL OR SICK 1-8 LEAVE. (a) A member who has accumulated 10 days or 80 hours of 1-9 unused state personal or sick leave may reserve that leave with 1-10 the retirement system for the purpose of potential service credit 1-11 under Section 823.403. Leave may be reserved under this section 1-12 only in increments of 10 days or 80 hours and only in July of each 1-13 year. 1-14 (b) Leave reserved under this section may be taken as leave 1-15 by a member only after the member's combined, current, unused, and 1-16 unreserved personal or sick leave from the state and the member's 1-17 employer, if not the state, has been exhausted. If leave reserved 1-18 under this section is not taken by the member as leave or used to 1-19 receive service credit under Section 823.403, it is considered 1-20 refunded at the time of the member's separation from employment 1-21 with an employer and is subject to any applicable personnel 1-22 policies in effect regarding payment for or transfer of the leave. 1-23 (c) The retirement system shall adopt rules and procedures 1-24 for the reservation, canceling of reservation, and refunding of 2-1 leave under this section. 2-2 (d) State personal or sick leave is not required to be 2-3 reserved under this section to be used in the granting of service 2-4 credit under Section 823.403. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.