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.