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Amend CSHB 2425 by adding appropriately numbered new SECTIONS 
to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly, to 
read as follows:
	(1)  SECTION ____.  Section 659.260, Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 659.260.  TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT.  [(a)  This section 
applies only to an employee whose permanent position is classified 
under the state's position classification plan.]
	(a) [(b)]  To facilitate a state agency's work during an 
emergency or other special circumstance, an employee may be 
temporarily assigned to other duties for a period not to exceed six 
months.  The employee is entitled to receive during the period of 
reassignment at least the same rate of pay that the employee 
received immediately before the reassignment.  An employee may not 
be temporarily assigned under this subsection to a position 
classified in a salary group with a lower minimum salary rate.
	(b) [(c)]  An employee may not be assigned temporary duties 
under this section for more than six months during a twelve-month 
period.
	(c) [(d)]  An employee temporarily designated to act as the 
administrative head of a state agency may continue to receive a 
salary for a classified position in an amount not to exceed the 
amount established by General Appropriations Act for the 
administrative head of the agency.
	(d) [(e)]  While the employee is temporarily assigned under 
this section, the state agency may not:
(1)  award a merit salary increase to the employee; or                          
(2)  promote or demote the employee.                                            
	(2)  SECTION ____.  Subsection (e), Section 661.152, 
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(e)  In this subsection, "duty" means an employee's last 
physical day on the job.  An employee accrues vacation leave at the 
applicable rate beginning on the first day of state employment and 
ending on the last duty day of state employment.  An employee 
accrues and is entitled to be credited for one month's vacation 
leave for each month of employment with the state beginning on the 
first day of employment with the state and on the first calendar day 
of each succeeding month of state employment.  An employee who is 
employed by the state during any part of a calendar month accrues 
vacation leave entitlement for the entire calendar month.
	(3)  SECTION ____.  Subsection (b), Section 661.202, 
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  In this subsection, "duty" means an employee's last 
physical day on the job.  An employee accrues sick leave beginning 
on the first day of state employment and ending on the last duty day 
of state employment.  An employee is entitled to be credited for one 
month's accrual of sick leave at the rate specified by Subsection 
(c) for each month of employment with the state beginning on the 
first day of employment with the state and on the first calendar day 
of each succeeding month of state employment.
	(4)  SECTION ____.  Subsection (b), Section 661.206, 
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  An employee may use up to eight hours of sick leave each 
fiscal [calendar] year to attend parent-teacher conference 
sessions for the employee's children.
	(5)  SECTION ____.  Section 662.010, Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 662.010.  HOLIDAY BEFORE WORK BEGINS OR AFTER WORK ENDS.  
(a)  An individual must be a state employee on the workday before 
and after a state or national holiday in order to be paid for that 
holiday, unless the holiday falls on the employee's first or last 
workday of the month [who is not a state employee on the last 
workday before a state or national holiday but who is a state 
employee on the first workday after the holiday may not be paid for 
the holiday if it occurs during the same month as the last workday 
before the holiday.]
	[(b)  An individual who is a state employee on the last 
workday before a state or national holiday but who is not a state 
employee on the first workday after the holiday may not be paid for 
the holiday if it occurs before the first workday of a month and 
during that month.].
	(b) [(c)]  In this section, "state employee":          
(1)  includes an individual who uses paid leave from a 
state agency; and      
(2)  does not include an individual who uses unpaid 
leave from a state agency.