By: Metcalf, Pacheco (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 2743
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021;
  May 11, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
  Commerce; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the salary of certain employees who transfer within a
  state agency.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 659, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 659.2532 to read as follows:
         Sec. 659.2532.  TRANSFER WITHIN AGENCY BETWEEN CLASSIFIED
  POSITIONS WITH SAME POSITION TITLE WHEN EMPLOYEE IS COMPETITIVELY
  SELECTED. (a) In this section, "classified position" means a
  position classified under the state's position classification
  plan.
         (b)  A state employee's annual salary rate immediately after
  a transfer may be set at any rate in the appropriate salary group if
  the employee:
               (1)  transfers within a state agency between two
  classified positions that:
                     (A)  are allocated to the same salary group; and
                     (B)  have the same position title as listed in the
  General Appropriations Act;
               (2)  transfers to a position for which the employment
  opening is publicly listed in accordance with Chapter 656;
               (3)  voluntarily applies for the position to which the
  employee transfers; and
               (4)  agrees to accept the position to which the
  employee transfers at the publicly listed salary.
         SECTION 2.  Section 659.2532, Government Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only to a transfer of position that takes effect
  on or after September 1, 2021. A transfer of position that takes
  effect before September 1, 2021, is governed by the law in effect on
  the effective date of the transfer, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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