1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to legislative leave time accounts for police officers in
 1-3     certain municipalities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 614, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 614.011 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 614.011.  LEGISLATIVE LEAVE TIME ACCOUNT. (a)  This
 1-8     section applies only to police officers employed by a municipality
 1-9     with a population of one million or more that has not adopted
1-10     Chapter 174, Local Government Code, and to which Section 143.1261,
1-11     Local Government Code, does not apply.
1-12           (b)  A police officer may donate not more than two hours for
1-13     each month of accumulated vacation or compensatory time to the
1-14     legislative leave time account of an employee organization.  The
1-15     municipality shall establish and maintain a legislative leave time
1-16     account for each employee organization.
1-17           (c)  The police officer must authorize the donation in
1-18     writing on a form provided by the employee organization and
1-19     approved by the municipality.  After receiving the signed
1-20     authorization on an approved form, the municipality shall transfer
1-21     donated time to the account monthly until the municipality
1-22     receives the police officer's written revocation of the
1-23     authorization.
1-24           (d)  Only a police officer who is a member of an employee
 2-1     organization may use for legislative leave purposes the time
 2-2     donated to the account of that employee organization.  A police
 2-3     officer may use for legislative leave purposes the time donated
 2-4     under this section instead of reimbursing the municipality under
 2-5     Section 614.005.
 2-6           (e)  A request to use for legislative leave purposes the time
 2-7     in an employee organization's time account must be in writing and
 2-8     submitted to the municipality by the president or the equivalent
 2-9     officer of the employee organization or by that officer's designee.
2-10           (f)  The municipality shall account for the time donated to
2-11     the account and used from the account.  The municipality shall
2-12     credit and debit an account on an hour-for-hour basis regardless of
2-13     the cash value of the time donated or used.
2-14           (g)  An employee organization may not use for legislative
2-15     leave purposes more than 4,000 hours from its legislative leave
2-16     time account under this section in a calendar year. This subsection
2-17     does not prevent an employee organization from accumulating more
2-18     than 4,000 hours, but only addresses the total number of donated
2-19     hours that an employee organization may use in any calendar year.
2-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-21     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-22     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-23     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-24     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1113 was passed by the House on April
         24, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1113 was passed by the Senate on May
         17, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  __________________________
                              Date
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                            Governor