Bill Text: TX HB2965 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to administrative support positions with the Texas Military Department.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB2965 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2965-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2965 | ||
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| relating to administrative support positions with the Texas | ||
| Military Department. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 437, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 437.2121 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 437.2121. EXTENDED STATE ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE FOR | ||
| ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. (a) The adjutant general may hire service | ||
| members of the Texas military forces to fill state military | ||
| positions with the department as authorized by the General | ||
| Appropriations Act. A service member hired under this section is | ||
| considered to be on extended state active duty service. | ||
| (b) A service member called to extended state active duty | ||
| service under this section is entitled to the benefits and paid | ||
| leave generally provided to state employees. | ||
| (c) The adjutant general shall establish and the department | ||
| shall maintain the criteria for activating a service member under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) A state military position may have a limited term with a | ||
| defined end date or may be a continuing position without a defined | ||
| end date. | ||
| (e) As soon as practicable before the end of each state | ||
| fiscal year, the department shall notify each service member called | ||
| to extended state active duty service under this section whether | ||
| the department will continue the service member's state military | ||
| position for the next state fiscal year. | ||
| (f) The department shall consult with the classification | ||
| officer, as authorized by Chapter 654, to develop a state salary | ||
| structure classification applicable to service members called to | ||
| extended state active duty service under this section. The salary | ||
| structure classification may allow for automatic salary increases | ||
| based on the service member's military rank and years of service. | ||
| The department may use the salary structure classification | ||
| established under this subsection before it is adopted in the | ||
| General Appropriations Act. This subsection expires August 31, | ||
| 2017. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2965 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 11, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2965 on May 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2965 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
