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.
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