1-1     By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 363
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2001; January 25, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     February 21, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     9, Nays 0; February 21, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a leave of absence for certain state employees who are
 1-9     donating an organ, bone marrow, or blood.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Sections 661.915 and 661.916 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 661.915.  LEAVE FOR ORGAN OR BONE MARROW DONORS.  (a)  A
1-14     state employee is entitled to a leave of absence without a
1-15     deduction in salary for the time necessary to permit the employee
1-16     to serve as a bone-marrow or organ donor.
1-17           (b)  The leave of absence provided by this section may not
1-18     exceed:
1-19                 (1)  five working days in a fiscal year to serve as a
1-20     bone-marrow donor; or
1-21                 (2)  30 working days in a fiscal year to serve as an
1-22     organ donor.
1-23           Sec. 661.916.  LEAVE FOR BLOOD DONATION.  A state agency
1-24     shall allow each agency employee sufficient time off, without a
1-25     deduction in salary or accrued leave, to donate blood.  An employee
1-26     may receive time off under this section not more than four times in
1-27     a fiscal year.
1-28           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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