H.B. No. 3113




AN ACT

relating to performance incentive awards for certain employees of 
state agencies who provide services to veterans.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 659, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 659.264 to read as follows:
	Sec. 659.264.  VETERANS PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE AWARD.  A 
state agency may make a performance incentive award to a classified 
employee for providing services to veterans as provided by the Jobs 
for Veterans Act (Pub. L. No. 107-288), if:
		(1)  the employee has been employed by the agency in the 
employee's current position for at least six continuous months 
before the effective date of the award; and
		(2)  the employee's documented job performance and 
productivity in that position are consistently above that normally 
expected or required.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 3113 was passed by the House on April 
29, 2005, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 3113 was passed by the Senate on May 
24, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor