Amend CSHB 2730 by adding a news SECTION ____ to read as 
follows:          
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, 
is amended by adding a new Section 411.0161 to read as follows:

DONATION OF ACCRUED COMPENSATORY TIME OR ACCRUED ANNUAL LEAVE FOR 
LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES.  Section 411.0161  (a)  The director shall 
allow a department employee to voluntarily transfer to a 
legislative leave pool up to eight hours of compensatory time or 
annual leave per year earned by the employee.
	(b)  The director or designee shall administer the 
legislative leave pool.
	(c)  The Public Safety Commission shall adopt rules and 
prescribe procedures relating to the operation of the legislative 
leave pool.
	(d)  The director or designee shall credit the legislative 
leave pool with the amount of time contributed by an employee and 
deduct a corresponding amount of time from the employee's earned 
compensatory time or annual leave as if the employee had used the 
time for personal purposes.
	(e)  An employee is entitled to use time contributed to the 
legislative leave pool if the employee uses the time for 
legislative leave on behalf of a law enforcement association of at 
least 2000 active or retired members governed by a board of 
directors elected directly by department employees.
	(f)  The director of the pool administrator shall transfer 
time from the pool to the employee and credit the time to the 
employee.
	(g)  an employee may only withdraw time from the legislative 
leave pool in coordination and with the consent of the president or 
designee of the law enforcement association described in subsection 
(e), and may not draw more than 80 hours of time from the pool in a 
160-hours work cycle with the maximum time taken not to exceed 480 
hours per fiscal year.
	(h)  In addition to subsection (g), the use of any time from 
the legislative leave pool must also be in accordance with rules 
adopted by the Public Safety Commission.