81R15683 JSC-F
By: Driver, Menendez H.B. No. 1490
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1490:
By: Merritt C.S.H.B. No. 1490
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to injury leave and related benefits for certain state
peace officers injured in the course of performance of duty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 661.918(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) A peace officer to whom this section applies is entitled
to injury leave, without a deduction in salary, without being
required to use compensatory time off accrued under Chapter 659,
and without being required to use any other type of leave allowable
under this chapter, for an injury sustained due to [resulting from
an assaultive offense under Chapter 22, Penal Code, to which the
person is exposed because of] the nature of the officer's [person's]
duties and that occurs during the course of the officer's [person's]
performance of duty, except an officer is not entitled to injury
leave under this subsection if:
(1) the officer's own gross negligence contributed to
the officer's injury; or
(2) the injury was related to the performance of
routine office duties. [For the purposes of this section, the
course of performance of a person's duty does not include
transportation to or from the person's designated headquarters or
the site of an assignment.]
SECTION 2. Section 661.918(b), Government Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to an injury that occurs on or after
January 1, 2009.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.