Bill Text: TX HB2542 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of uniform rules for hours of work for certain county employees.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB2542 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2542-Comm_Sub.html
By: Raymond, Leo-Wilson | H.B. No. 2542 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2023; | ||
May 10, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local | ||
Government; May 22, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 22, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
YeaNayAbsentPNV | ||
BettencourtX | ||
SpringerX | ||
EckhardtX | ||
GutierrezX | ||
HallX | ||
NicholsX | ||
ParkerX | ||
PaxtonX | ||
WestX | ||
|
||
|
||
relating to the adoption of uniform rules for hours of work for | ||
certain county employees. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 157.021(a), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In a county with a population of 350,000 [ |
||
more or covered by a county civil service system created under | ||
Subchapter A, Chapter 158, the commissioners court may adopt and | ||
enforce uniform rules on the hours of work of department heads, | ||
assistants, deputies, and other employees whose compensation is set | ||
or approved by the court, other than employees of a sheriff's or | ||
constable's office in a county covered by a county civil service | ||
system created under Chapter 158 with a population of less than | ||
350,000. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
* * * * * |