1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 672 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; February 25, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 March 31, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 31, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Moncrief 1-7 Amend SECTION 1 of Senate Bill 672 on page 1, lines 20-21, by 1-8 striking "the agency currently employing the person" and 1-9 substituting "another state agency". 1-10 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-11 AN ACT 1-12 relating to restoring lost sick leave to a former state employee 1-13 returning to state employment. 1-14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-15 SECTION 1. (a) A state agency shall restore a sick leave 1-16 balance accumulated before September 1, 1991, for any person 1-17 currently employed by the agency who forfeited a sick leave balance 1-18 as a result of leaving employment with a state agency before 1-19 September 1, 1991, if the person was not employed by any state 1-20 agency for at least one month and entered employment with the 1-21 agency currently employing the person not later than one year after 1-22 the date the person's prior employment with a state agency ended. 1-23 To have a sick leave balance restored under this section, the 1-24 person must provide the agency employing the person with evidence 1-25 establishing that the person is entitled to have the sick leave 1-26 balance restored. A lost sick leave balance must be restored in 1-27 its entirety, less any amount of the lost sick leave previously 1-28 restored in any state employment. 1-29 (b) A person may have a lost sick leave balance restored 1-30 under this section only if the person would have been entitled to 1-31 have the sick leave balance restored under the current General 1-32 Appropriations Act if that Act had been in effect when the person 1-33 entered employment with the agency currently employing the person. 1-34 (c) This Act expires September 1, 2000. 1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-41 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-42 * * * * *