By Barrientos S.B. No. 1762
76R7586 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to service credit in the Employees Retirement System of
1-3 Texas for accumulated sick leave.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 813.509, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsections (a), (c), and (e) and by adding Subsection (h)
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (a) A member who holds a position included in the employee
1-9 class of membership during the month that includes the effective
1-10 date of the member's termination of employment [retirement and who
1-11 retires based on service or a disability] is entitled to service
1-12 credit in the retirement system for the member's sick leave that
1-13 has accumulated and is unused on the last day of employment. Sick
1-14 leave is creditable in the retirement system at the rate of one
1-15 month of service credit for each 20 days, or 160 hours, of
1-16 accumulated sick leave and one month for each fraction of days or
1-17 hours remaining after division of the total hours of accumulated
1-18 sick leave by 160.
1-19 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the disbursing
1-20 officer of each department or agency shall, before the 11th day
1-21 after the effective date of employment termination [retirement] of
1-22 one or more employees of the department or agency, certify to the
1-23 retirement system:
1-24 (1) the name of each person whose termination of
2-1 employment [retirement] from the department or agency, and from
2-2 state service, became effective during the preceding month; and
2-3 (2) the amount of the person's accumulated sick leave
2-4 on the last day of employment.
2-5 (e) On receipt of a certification under Subsection (c) or
2-6 (d), the retirement system shall grant any credit to which a
2-7 [retiring] member whose employment has been terminated or retiree
2-8 who is a subject of the certification is entitled. An increase in
2-9 the computation of an annuity because of credit provided by this
2-10 section after a certification under Subsection (c) begins with the
2-11 first payment that becomes due after certification.
2-12 (h) If a member returns to employment with the state before
2-13 the first anniversary of the date of the member's termination of
2-14 employment, the member is not entitled to service credit previously
2-15 credited.
2-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-17 applies only to a termination of employment that occurs on or after
2-18 that date.
2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.