By Van de Putte S.B. No. 964 77R8282 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a legislative leave time bank for fire fighters and 1-3 police officers in certain municipalities and counties. 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 BANK. (a) A peace 1-8 officer or fire fighter may donate up to one hour per month, in 1-9 increments of one-quarter hour, of accumulated vacation or 1-10 compensatory time to a time bank established and maintained by the 1-11 governmental body in the name of a peace or fire fighter employee 1-12 organization. The peace officer or fire fighter must authorize the 1-13 donation in writing on a form provided by the employee organization 1-14 and approved by the governmental body. The governmental body will 1-15 transfer the donated time to the employee organization's time bank 1-16 account each month until the peace officer or fire fighter revokes 1-17 the authorization in writing. 1-18 (b) Leave time donated to a time bank under this section may 1-19 be used to fund legislative leave used by a peace officer or fire 1-20 fighter who is a member of a peace officer or fire fighter employee 1-21 organization in lieu of the cash reimbursement required by this 1-22 Chapter. A request to use leave time in an organization's time 1-23 bank must be made in writing and submitted to the governmental body 1-24 by the president of the peace officer or fire fighter employee 2-1 organization or the president's designee. A leave time account 2-2 authorized by this section is perpetual. Unused leave time donated 2-3 to a time bank account shall carry over from year to year until 2-4 used by the designated employee organization. 2-5 (c) The governmental body may: 2-6 (1) determine the cash value of the donated leave time 2-7 and credit the amount to an account in the name of the organization 2-8 and then deduct the cash value of legislative leave used from this 2-9 account; or 2-10 (2) exchange hours used by a peace officer or fire 2-11 fighter for legislative leave on a one-for-one basis for hours 2-12 accumulated in the time bank account regardless of the cash value. 2-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.