By: Williams S.B. No. 2304

(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2009; March 31, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; April 30, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 30, 2009, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2304 By: Hinojosa

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the amount of hazardous duty pay for certain employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 659.305, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(h) The amount of hazardous duty pay for a particular month for a full-time state employee [correctional officer] employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is [the lesser of:

[(1)] $12 for each 12-month period of lifetime service credit accrued by the employee[; or

[(2) $300].

SECTION 2. This Act does not make an appropriation. A provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program, creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the provision.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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