By Moncrief S.B. No. 672 76R6420 BDH-D 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.