Bill Text: TX HB83 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to compensation and employment benefits for members of the state military forces called to state active duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB83 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB83-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to compensation and employment benefits for members of the state military forces called to state active duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB83 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB83-Introduced.html
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By: Flynn | H.B. No. 83 |
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relating to compensation and employment benefits for members of the | ||
state military forces called to state active duty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 431.082, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) A member of the state military forces called to state | ||
active duty is a temporary state employee while on state active | ||
duty. If the length of state active duty for a member of the state | ||
military forces called to state active duty exceeds 45 consecutive | ||
days, the adjutant general may pay the member an amount not to | ||
exceed 165 percent of the amount authorized by the General | ||
Appropriations Act. If the length of state active duty for a member | ||
of the state military forces called to state active duty exceeds 90 | ||
consecutive days, the member is after the 90th day eligible for | ||
coverage in the group benefits program, eligible for membership in | ||
the employee class of the Employees Retirement System of Texas, and | ||
otherwise eligible to receive benefits provided to state employees | ||
whose employment may be temporary. | ||
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, 2011. |