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Amend CSHB 304 by adding a new appropriately numbered section 
to read as follows and renumbering the existing sections 
accordingly.
	SECTION ____.  Section 143.3015, Local Government Code is 
amended by adding subsection (i) to read as follows:
	(i)  Notwithstanding subsection (a) and (h), a municipality 
with a population of less than 560,000 that has not recognized an 
association as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent as provided 
by Section 143.304 before September 1, 2005, may adopt rules for 
police officers converting vacation and sick leave days to hours 
that supersedes the provisions of Section 142.0015, Section 
143.045, and Section 143.046 provided that:
		(A)  A police officer is entitled to earn one hundred 
twenty (120) hours of vacation leave each year with pay, as a 
minimum, if the officer has been regularly employed in the 
department or departments for at least one year.
		(B)  In computing the length of time a police officer 
may be absent from work on vacation leave, only those hours that the 
person would have been required to work if not on vacation may be 
counted as vacation leave.
		(C)  A police officer shall be granted the same number 
of vacation hours and holiday hours, or hours in lieu of vacation 
hours or holiday hours, granted to other municipal employees who 
work the same number of hours in a regular work day and have worked 
for the municipality for the same number of years.
		(D)  A police officer shall be granted sick leave with 
pay accumulated at the rate of 4.61 hours for each full month 
employed in a calendar year, so as to total one hundred twenty (120) 
hours to the person's credit each twelve months.
		(E)  A police officer who leaves the classified service 
for any reason is entitled to receive in a lump-sum payment the full 
amount of the person's salary for accumulated sick leave if the 
person has accumulated not more than 720 hours of sick leave, the 
person's employer may limit payment to the amount that the person 
would have received if the person had been allowed to use 720 hours 
of accumulated sick leave during the last six months of employment.  
The lump-sum payment is computed by compensating the police officer 
for the accumulated time at the highest permanent pay 
classification for which the person was eligible during the last 
six months of employment.  The police officer is paid for the same 
period for which the person had taken the sick leave but does not 
include additional holidays and any sick leave or vacation time 
that the person might have accrued during the 720 hours.