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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the amount of hazardous duty pay for certain employees |
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of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 659.305, Government |
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Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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(h) The amount of hazardous duty pay for a particular month |
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for a full-time state employee [correctional officer] employed by |
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the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is [the lesser of:
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[(1)] $12 for each 12-month period of lifetime service |
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credit accrued by the employee[; or
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[(2) $300]. |
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SECTION 2. This Act does not make an appropriation. A |
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provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program, |
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creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental |
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entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the |
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legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the |
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provision. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |