Bill Text: TX HB2001 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain disaster relief organizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-08 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB2001 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2001-Introduced.html
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| By: Leach | H.B. No. 2001 | |
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| relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain | ||
| disaster relief organizations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 661.9075 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 661.9075. VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| ACTIVE IN DISASTER. (a) A state employee who is a volunteer of an | ||
| organization that is a member of the Texas Voluntary Organizations | ||
| Active in Disaster may be granted leave to participate in disaster | ||
| relief services without a deduction in salary or loss of vacation | ||
| time, sick leave, earned overtime credit, or state compensatory | ||
| time if: | ||
| (1) the leave is taken with the authorization of the | ||
| employee's supervisor; and | ||
| (2) the governor has declared a state of disaster | ||
| under Chapter 418. | ||
| (b) Leave granted to a state employee under Subsection (a) | ||
| may not exceed 10 days each fiscal year. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 661.907, Government Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
