Bill Text: TX SB1967 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to compensation and leave for certain employees of the office of inspector general of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1967 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1967-Introduced.html

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2023S0201-1 02/22/23
By: Perry S.B. No. 1967

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to compensation and leave for certain employees of the
office of inspector general of the Texas Juvenile Justice
Department.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 659.301(5), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(5) "State employee" means an individual who:
(A) is a commissioned law enforcement officer of
the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Facilities Commission,
the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice, the attorney general, [or] the insurance fraud
unit of the Texas Department of Insurance, or the office of
inspector general of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department;
(B) is a commissioned security officer of the
comptroller;
(C) is a law enforcement officer commissioned by
the Parks and Wildlife Commission;
(D) is a commissioned peace officer of an
institution of higher education;
(E) is an employee or official of the Board of
Pardons and Paroles or the parole division of the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice if the employee or official has routine direct
contact with inmates of any penal or correctional institution or
with administratively released prisoners subject to the board's
jurisdiction;
(F) has been certified to the Employees
Retirement System of Texas under Section 815.505 as having begun
employment as a law enforcement officer or custodial officer,
unless the individual has been certified to the system as having
ceased employment as a law enforcement officer or custodial
officer;
(G) before May 29, 1987, received hazardous duty
pay based on the terms of any state law if the individual holds a
position designated under that law as eligible for the pay; or
(H) is a security officer employed by the Texas
Military Department.
SECTION 2. Section 661.918(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) This section applies to a peace officer under Article
2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, who is commissioned as a law
enforcement officer or agent, including a ranger, by:
(1) the Public Safety Commission and the director of
the Department of Public Safety;
(2) the Parks and Wildlife Commission;
(3) the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;
(4) the attorney general; [or]
(5) the insurance fraud unit of the Texas Department
of Insurance; or
(6) the office of inspector general of the Texas
Juvenile Justice Department.
SECTION 3. Section 242.102, Human Resources Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(j) The department shall ensure that a peace officer
commissioned under Subsection (d) is compensated according to
Schedule C of the position classification salary schedule
prescribed by the General Appropriations Act.
SECTION 4. (a) The classification officer in the office of
the state auditor shall classify the position of commissioned peace
officer employed by the office of inspector general of the Texas
Juvenile Justice Department as a Schedule C position under the
Texas Position Classification Plan.
(b) The change made by the classification officer as
required by this section applies beginning with the state fiscal
biennium beginning September 1, 2023.
(c) This section expires September 1, 2025.
SECTION 5. Section 661.918(a), Government Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to an injury that occurs on or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.