By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 363
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a leave of absence for certain state employees who are
 1-3     donating an organ, bone marrow, or blood.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Sections 661.915 and 661.916 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 661.915.  LEAVE FOR ORGAN OR BONE MARROW DONORS.  (a)  A
 1-8     state employee is entitled to a leave of absence without a
 1-9     deduction in salary for the time necessary to permit the employee
1-10     to serve as a bone-marrow or organ donor.
1-11           (b)  The leave of absence provided by this section may not
1-12     exceed:
1-13                 (1)  five working days in a fiscal year to serve as a
1-14     bone-marrow donor; or
1-15                 (2)  30 working days in a fiscal year to serve as an
1-16     organ donor.
1-17           Sec. 661.916.  LEAVE FOR BLOOD DONATION.  A state agency
1-18     shall allow each agency employee sufficient time off, without a
1-19     deduction in salary or accrued leave, to donate blood.  An employee
1-20     may receive time off under this section not more than four times in
1-21     a fiscal year.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.