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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