Bill Text: TX HB4579 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the payment of employment compensation by certain state agencies.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4579 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4579-Comm_Sub.html

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88R20739 LRM-F
By: Walle H.B. No. 4579
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4579:
By: Hernandez C.S.H.B. No. 4579

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the payment of employment compensation by certain state
agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 659.082, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) A state agency listed in Subsection (a) may elect to pay
employment compensation twice a month to an employee who holds a
position classified in salary group A12, A13, A14, A15, A16, or A17
under classification salary Schedule A in the General
Appropriations Act. A state agency that elects to pay employment
compensation twice a month under this subsection must satisfy the
comptroller's requirements relating to the payment of compensation
twice a month.
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.