By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 672
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to restoring lost sick leave to a former state employee
 1-2     returning to state employment.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  (a)  A state agency shall restore a sick leave
 1-5     balance accumulated before September 1, 1991, for any person
 1-6     currently employed by the agency who forfeited a sick leave balance
 1-7     as a result of leaving employment with a state agency before
 1-8     September 1, 1991, if the person was not employed by any state
 1-9     agency for at least one month and entered employment with another
1-10     state agency not later than one year after the date the person's
1-11     prior employment with a state agency ended.  To have a sick leave
1-12     balance restored under this section, the person must provide the
1-13     agency employing the person with evidence establishing that the
1-14     person is entitled to have the sick leave balance restored.  A lost
1-15     sick leave balance must be restored in its entirety, less any
1-16     amount of the lost sick leave previously restored in any state
1-17     employment.
1-18           (b)  A person may have a lost sick leave balance restored
1-19     under this section only if the person would have been entitled to
1-20     have the sick leave balance restored under the current General
1-21     Appropriations Act if that Act had been in effect when the person
1-22     entered employment with the agency currently employing the person.
1-23           (c)  This Act expires September 1, 2000.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.