By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 2706
77R6746 ATP-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a legislative, vacation, and sick leave time bank for
1-3 certain peace officers and firefighters.
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, VACATION, AND SICK LEAVE TIME
1-8 BANK. (a) A peace officer or firefighter may donate each month an
1-9 unlimited amount of hours, in increments of one-quarter hour, of
1-10 the person's accumulated vacation or compensatory time to the
1-11 legislative, vacation, and sick leave time bank of an employee
1-12 organization. The employer shall establish and maintain a
1-13 legislative, vacation, and sick leave time bank for each employee
1-14 organization.
1-15 (b) The peace officer or firefighter must authorize the
1-16 donation in writing on a form provided by the employee organization
1-17 and approved by the employer. After receiving the signed
1-18 authorization on an approved form, the employer shall transfer
1-19 donated time to the bank monthly until the employer receives the
1-20 peace officer's or firefighter's written revocation of the
1-21 authorization.
1-22 (c) Only a peace officer or firefighter who is a member of
1-23 an employee organization may use for legislative, vacation, or sick
1-24 leave purposes the time donated to the bank of that employee
2-1 organization. A peace officer or firefighter may use for
2-2 legislative leave purposes the time donated under this section
2-3 instead of reimbursing the employer under Section 614.005.
2-4 (d) A request to use for legislative, vacation, or sick
2-5 leave purposes the time in an employee organization's time bank
2-6 must be in writing and submitted to the employer by the president
2-7 or the equivalent officer of the employee organization or by that
2-8 officer's designee.
2-9 (e) The employer shall account for the time donated to the
2-10 bank and used from the bank. The employer may:
2-11 (1) determine and credit the actual cash value of the
2-12 donated time in the bank and determine and debit the actual cash
2-13 value of time used from the bank for legislative, vacation, or sick
2-14 leave purposes; or
2-15 (2) credit and debit a bank on an hour-for-hour basis
2-16 regardless of the cash value of the time donated or used.
2-17 (f) A leave time bank authorized by this section is
2-18 perpetual. Unused leave time donated to a leave time bank carries
2-19 over from year to year until used by the designated employee
2-20 organization.
2-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-22 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-23 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-24 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-25 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
2-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-27 Amend House Bill No. 2706 by adding the following
3-1 appropriately lettered subsections and relettering the subsections
3-2 of the bill accordingly:
3-3 Sec. 614.011. LEGISLATIVE, VACATION AND SICK LEAVE TIME
3-4 BANK. (a) This section applies only to counties with a population
3-5 of more than one million and less than 1.5 million.
3-6 On page 1, line 7, strike ", VACATION, AND SICK"
3-7 On page 1, lines 8-9, strike "each month an unlimited amount
3-8 of hours" and substitute "no more than one hour each month,".
3-9 On page 1, line 10, strike "vacation or compensatory" and
3-10 substitute "vacation, sick or compensatory".
3-11 On page 1, line 11, strike ", vacation, and sick".
3-12 On page 1, line 13, strike ", vacation, and sick"
3-13 On page 1, lines 23-24, strike ", vacation, or sick"
3-14 On page 2, line 4, strike ", vacation, or sick"
3-15 On page 2, line 13, strike ", vacation, or sick"
3-16 Bailey