By: Frost H.B. No. 3334

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 Section 659.305(g), Government Code, is repealed.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, 2007.