Bill Text: TX HB2469 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

---

Bill Title: Relating to the administration of certain functions relating to state employee leave.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB2469 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2469-Comm_Sub.html

---

By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 2469
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2023;
April 24, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE VOTE
YeaNayAbsentPNV
SchwertnerX
KingX
BirdwellX
CampbellX
CreightonX
JohnsonX
KolkhorstX
MenéndezX
MiddletonX
NicholsX
ZaffiriniX
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the administration of certain functions relating to
state employee leave.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 661.202(j), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(j) A state agency shall maintain a written statement
covering the policies and procedures for an extension of leave
under Subsection (i) and shall make the statement available to all
agency employees. The state agency shall provide a copy of the
statement to the comptroller [state auditor] on request.
SECTION 2. Section 661.9041(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) The comptroller [state auditor] shall adopt guidelines
to assist state agencies in determining the amount of emergency
leave to grant to an employee under this section as differential
pay.
SECTION 3. Section 661.923(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) Not later than the last day of each quarter of a state
fiscal year, an agency shall submit a report to the comptroller
[state auditor's office] and the Legislative Budget Board that
includes the name of each agency employee described by Subsection
(a)(1) who has been granted 168 hours or more of leave under this
section during that fiscal quarter. The report must include, for
each employee, a brief statement as to the reason the employee
remains on leave.
SECTION 4. Chapter 661, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subchapter AA to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER AA. COMPTROLLER RULES AND REPORTS ON CERTAIN LEAVE
PROVISIONS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES
Sec. 661.951. RULES. The comptroller may adopt rules,
procedures, and guidelines to administer Subchapters B, C, D, E, F,
G, and Z.
Sec. 661.952. REPORT ON EXCEPTIONS. The comptroller shall
report to the governor and the legislature any state agency or
institution of higher education that practices exceptions to the
laws described by Section 661.951.
SECTION 5. Sections 661.038, 661.068, 661.094, and 661.151,
Government Code, are repealed.
SECTION 6. (a) Not later than September 10, 2023, the
following are transferred from the state auditor to the comptroller
of public accounts:
(1) the powers and duties of the state auditor
relating to leave for state employees under Chapter 661, Government
Code; and
(2) all property and records in the custody of the
state auditor that are related to a power or duty transferred under
this subsection and all funds appropriated by the legislature for
that power or duty.
(b) A rule, form, policy, procedure, or decision of the
state auditor that is related to a power or duty described by
Subsection (a) of this section continues in effect as a rule, form,
policy, procedure, or decision of the comptroller of public
accounts until superseded by an act of the comptroller of public
accounts.
(c) A reference in law or administrative rule to the state
auditor that relates to a power or duty transferred under
Subsection (a) of this section means the comptroller of public
accounts.
SECTION 7. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, but not later than September 10, 2023, the state
auditor and the comptroller of public accounts shall enter into a
memorandum of understanding that:
(1) identifies in detail the applicable powers and
duties that are transferred by this Act; and
(2) establishes a plan for the identification and
transfer of the records, property, and unspent appropriations of
the state auditor that are used for purposes of the state auditor's
powers and duties that are transferred by this Act.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
* * * * *