By: Williams  S.B. No. 737
         (In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2007; March 6, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
  April 23, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 15,
  Nays 0; April 23, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
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.  Subsections (a) and (d), Section 659.305,
  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:
               [(1)]  $10 for each 12-month period of lifetime service
  credit accrued by the employee[; or
               [(2)  $300].
          (d)  For purposes of Subsections (a) [(a)(1)] and (b)(2),
  the number of 12-month periods of lifetime service credit that the
  employee has accrued must be determined as of the last day of the
  preceding month.
         SECTION 2.  Subsection (c), Section 659.305, Government
  Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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