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78R2791 MCK-D

By:  Ellis                                                        H.B. No. 2524



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the amount of hazardous duty pay for certain state 
employees.   
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 659.305(a)-(c), Government Code, are 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the amount of a 
full-time state employee's hazardous duty pay for a particular 
month is the lesser of $500 or:
		(1)  $10 [$7] for each 12-month period of lifetime 
service credit accrued by an [the] employee who has less than five 
years of lifetime service credit; [or]
		(2)  $15 for each 12-month period of lifetime service 
credit accrued by an employee who has at least 5 years but less than 
10 years of lifetime service credit;
		(3)  $20 for each 12-month period of lifetime service 
credit accrued by an employee who has at least 10 years but less 
than 15 years of lifetime service credit; or
		(4)  $25 for each 12-month period of lifetime service 
credit accrued by an employee who has 15 or more years of lifetime 
service credit  [$210].
	(b)  This subsection applies only to a state employee whose 
compensation for services provided to the state during any month 
before August 1987 included hazardous duty pay that was based on 
total state service performed before May 29, 1987.  The amount of a 
full-time state employee's hazardous duty pay for a particular 
month is the sum of:
		(1)  $7 for each 12-month period of state service 
credit the employee finished accruing before May 29, 1987;  and
		(2)  an amount determined using the pay scale under 
Subsection (a) [$7] for each 12-month period of lifetime service 
credit that the employee accrued on or after [the date, which must 
be before] May 29, 1987 [, on which the employee finished accruing 
the last 12-month period of state service credit].
	(c)  The amount determined under Subsection (b)(2) may not 
exceed $500 [$210].
	SECTION 2.  Section 659.305(g), Government Code, is 
repealed.                
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.