Bill Text: TX SB44 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 44 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain disaster relief organizations.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB44 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB44-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 44
	(In the Senate - Filed November 9, 2020; March 3, 2021, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources &
	Economic Development; March 26, 2021, reported favorably by the
	following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 26, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain
	disaster relief organizations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 661.9075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 661.9075. VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
	ACTIVE IN DISASTER. (a) A state employee who is a volunteer of an
	organization that is a member of the Texas Voluntary Organizations
	Active in Disaster may be granted leave to participate in disaster
	relief services without a deduction in salary or loss of vacation
	time, sick leave, earned overtime credit, or state compensatory
	time if:
	(1) the employee's supervisor authorizes the leave;
	and
	(2) the services in which the employee participates
	are provided for a state of disaster declared by the governor under
	Chapter 418.
	(b) Leave granted to a state employee under Subsection (a)
	may not exceed 10 days each fiscal year.
	SECTION 2. Section 661.907, Government Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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