| 1 | 1 | | By: Kolkhorst, Cook, Darby H.B. No. 988 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) |
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| 3 | 3 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 5 | 5 | | Criminal Justice; May 9, 2011, reported favorably by the following |
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| 6 | 6 | | vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 9, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to compensatory time accrued by a correctional officer |
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| 12 | 12 | | employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 659.015, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 15 | 15 | | amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (k) to read as |
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| 16 | 16 | | follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (g) Except as provided by Subsection (k), compensatory |
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| 18 | 18 | | [Compensatory] time off to which an employee is entitled under |
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| 19 | 19 | | Subsection (f) must be taken during the 12-month period following |
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| 20 | 20 | | the end of the workweek in which the compensatory time was accrued |
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| 21 | 21 | | or it lapses. An employee may not be paid for that compensatory |
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| 22 | 22 | | time, except as provided by this subsection and Subsections (i) and |
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| 23 | 23 | | (j). An employee of an institution of higher education as defined |
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| 24 | 24 | | by Section 61.003, Education Code, or an employee engaged in a |
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| 25 | 25 | | public safety activity, including highway construction and |
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| 26 | 26 | | maintenance or an emergency response activity, may be paid at the |
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| 27 | 27 | | employee's regular rate of pay for that compensatory time if the |
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| 28 | 28 | | employer determines that taking the compensatory time off would |
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| 29 | 29 | | disrupt normal teaching, research, or other critical functions. |
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| 30 | 30 | | (k) Compensatory time off to which a correctional officer |
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| 31 | 31 | | employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is entitled |
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| 32 | 32 | | under Subsection (f) must be taken during the 24-month period |
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| 33 | 33 | | following the end of the workweek in which the compensatory time was |
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| 34 | 34 | | accrued or it lapses. |
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| 35 | 35 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 36 | 36 | | * * * * * |
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