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.