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