1-1     By:  Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)              H.B. No. 569
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2001;
 1-3     April 24, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 7, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 7, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to administrative approval of state employee contributions
 1-9     to the sick leave pool.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Section 661.003, Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 661.003.  CONTRIBUTION TO POOL. (a)  An [To contribute
1-14     to the sick leave pool, an employee must apply to the pool
1-15     administrator in the manner prescribed by the governing body of the
1-16     state agency.]
1-17           [(b) On approval by the pool administrator, an] employee may
1-18     contribute to the sick leave pool one or more days of the
1-19     employee's accrued sick leave.
1-20           (b) [(c)]  The pool administrator shall credit the sick leave
1-21     pool with the amount of time contributed by an employee and deduct
1-22     a corresponding amount of time from the employee's earned sick
1-23     leave as if the employee had used the time for personal purposes.
1-24           (c) [(d)]  A retiring employee may designate the number of
1-25     the retiring employee's accrued sick leave hours to be used for
1-26     retirement credit and the number of the retiring employee's accrued
1-27     sick leave hours to be donated on retirement to the sick leave
1-28     pool.
1-29           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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