85R3478 MK-D
 
  By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 2717
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to overtime pay for child protective services employees in
  the Department of Family and Protective Services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 40.03211 to read as follows:
         Sec. 40.03211.  OVERTIME PAY FOR CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
  PERSONNEL. The department may not authorize child protective
  services employees to work overtime hours unless the department has
  sufficient funds to fully compensate employees for the total number
  of hours worked during each pay period. The department may not delay
  compensation to child protective services employees for overtime
  hours worked during a pay period.
         SECTION 2.  Immediately after the effective date of this
  Act, using funds appropriated to the Department of Family and
  Protective Services for the 2018-2019 fiscal biennium for the
  purpose of employee compensation, the department shall reimburse
  department employees who have previously worked overtime hours and
  are owed compensation for those hours by the department as of the
  effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.