| 1 | 1 | | By: Sheets, Sanford (Senate Sponsor - Davis) H.B. No. 2924 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran |
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| 4 | 4 | | Affairs and Military Installations; May 17, 2013, reported |
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| 5 | 5 | | favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, |
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| 6 | 6 | | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | |
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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 military leave time accounts for police and fire |
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| 12 | 12 | | departments. |
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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 143.075, Local Government Code, is |
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| 15 | 15 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | Sec. 143.075. MILITARY LEAVE TIME ACCOUNTS. (a) A |
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| 17 | 17 | | municipality shall maintain military leave time accounts for the |
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| 18 | 18 | | fire and police departments and must maintain a separate military |
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| 19 | 19 | | leave time account for each department. |
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| 20 | 20 | | (b) A military leave time account shall benefit a fire |
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| 21 | 21 | | fighter or police officer who: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) is a member of the Texas National Guard or the |
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| 23 | 23 | | armed forces reserves of the United States; |
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| 24 | 24 | | (2) was called to active federal military duty while |
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| 25 | 25 | | serving as a fire fighter or police officer for the municipality; |
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| 26 | 26 | | and |
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| 27 | 27 | | (3) has served on active duty for a period of 3 [12] |
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| 28 | 28 | | continuous months or longer[; and |
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| 29 | 29 | | [(4) has exhausted the balance of the person's |
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| 30 | 30 | | vacation, holiday, and compensatory leave time accumulations]. |
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| 31 | 31 | | (c) A fire fighter or police officer may donate any amount |
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| 32 | 32 | | of accumulated vacation, holiday, sick, or compensatory leave time |
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| 33 | 33 | | to the military leave time account in that fire fighter's or police |
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| 34 | 34 | | officer's department to help provide salary continuation for fire |
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| 35 | 35 | | fighters or police officers who qualify as eligible beneficiaries |
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| 36 | 36 | | of the account under Subsection (b). A fire fighter or police |
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| 37 | 37 | | officer who wishes to donate time to an account under this section |
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| 38 | 38 | | must authorize the donation in writing on a form provided by the |
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| 39 | 39 | | fire or police department and approved by the municipality. |
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| 40 | 40 | | (d) A municipality shall equally distribute the leave time |
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| 41 | 41 | | donated to a military leave time account among all fire fighters or |
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| 42 | 42 | | police officers who are eligible beneficiaries of that account. |
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| 43 | 43 | | The municipality shall credit and debit the applicable military |
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| 44 | 44 | | leave time account on an hourly basis regardless of the cash value |
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| 45 | 45 | | of the time donated or used. |
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| 46 | 46 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 47 | 47 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 48 | 48 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 49 | 49 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 50 | 50 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 51 | 51 | | * * * * * |
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