By Ellis                                              S.B. No. 1040
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allowing certain state employees to earn compensatory
 1-3     time for work performed at home.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 659.018, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 659.018.  COMPENSATORY TIME:  PLACE WHERE WORK
 1-8     PERFORMED.  (a)  Except under circumstances specified in the
 1-9     General Appropriations Act, an employee of a state agency as
1-10     defined by Section 658.001 may not, for hours worked during any
1-11     calendar week, accumulate compensatory time off under Section
1-12     659.015(f) or 659.016 to the extent that the hours are attributable
1-13     to work performed at a location other than the employee's regular
1-14     or temporarily assigned place of employment.  Except as provided by
1-15     Subsection (b), the [The] employee's personal residence may not be
1-16     considered the employee's regular or temporarily assigned place of
1-17     employment.
1-18           (b)  A state agency may adopt a written policy approved by
1-19     the head of the agency that identifies situations in which an
1-20     employee may accumulate compensatory time off for work performed at
1-21     the employee's personal residence.  The state agency shall:
1-22                 (1)  notify its employees of the agency's policy on
1-23     earning compensatory time off for work performed at an  employee's
1-24     personal residence; and
 2-1                 (2)  make the policy available to the state auditor's
 2-2     office on request.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
 2-4     applies only to work performed on or after that date.  Work
 2-5     performed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
 2-6     law in effect when the work was performed, and the former law is
 2-7     continued in effect for that purpose.