Bill Text: TX HB1068 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the use of personal leave during school holidays by certain school district employees.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on intent calendar [HB1068 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1068-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Allen, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 1068
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021;
May 13, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 24, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
May 24, 2021, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1068 By: Hughes

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of personal leave during school holidays by
certain school district employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.003, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) A school district employee with available personal
leave under this section is entitled to use the leave for
compensation for a day designated as a school holiday for which the
employee would otherwise not receive compensation. An employee may
not use more than the number of personal leave days provided to the
employee per year under this section or by the school district for
days designated as school holidays during that year. This
subsection applies only to a school district employee who is not:
(1) exempt from the overtime provisions of the federal
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.);
and
(2) employed on a salaried basis.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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