Bill Text: TX SB257 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to personal leave provided for a public school employee who tests positive for certain diseases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB257 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB257-Introduced.html
87R1257 TSS-D | ||
By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 257 |
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relating to personal leave provided for a public school employee | ||
who tests positive for certain diseases. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22.003, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) and amending Subsection (c-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-1) In addition to all other days of leave provided by | ||
this section or by the school district, an employee of a school | ||
district who tests positive for a disease that is the basis for a | ||
disaster declared by the governor under Section 418.014, Government | ||
Code, for all or part of the state is entitled to not less than 14 | ||
days of leave for compensation following the positive test result. | ||
Days of leave taken under this subsection may not be deducted from | ||
accrued personal leave or leave that the employee is entitled to | ||
under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. Section | ||
2601 et seq.). | ||
(a-2) In addition to all other days of leave provided by | ||
this section or by the school district, an employee employed by a | ||
school district for the 2021-2022 school year who was also employed | ||
by the district for the 2020-2021 school year is entitled to the | ||
number of days of leave, not to exceed 14 days, equal to the number | ||
of days during the 2020-2021 school year for which the employee used | ||
leave due to testing positive for the coronavirus disease | ||
(COVID-19). This subsection expires September 1, 2022. | ||
(c-1) Any informational handbook a school district provides | ||
to employees in an electronic or paper form or makes available by | ||
posting on the district website must include notification of an | ||
employee's rights under Subsections (a-1) and [ |
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the relevant section of the handbook. Any form used by a school | ||
district through which an employee may request leave under this | ||
section must include disaster leave under Subsection (a-1) and | ||
assault leave under Subsection (b) as options [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2021. |