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1	1		By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1576
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 23, 2015, read
3		-	first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
4		-	April 23, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5		-	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 2015,
6		-	sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
8		-	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1576 By: Whitmire
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11	4		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
12	5		AN ACT
13	6		relating to the compensatory time and overtime pay for commissioned
14	7		officers of the Department of Public Safety.
15	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
16	9		SECTION 1. The heading to Section 411.016, Government Code,
17	10		is amended to read as follows:
18	11		Sec. 411.016. COMPENSATORY TIME; OVERTIME [SUPPLEMENTAL]
19	12		PAY.
20	13		SECTION 2. Section 411.016, Government Code, is amended by
21	14		amending Subsections (b), (c), and (e) and adding Subsections (b-1)
22	15		and (f) to read as follows:
23	16		(b) If, during a 24-hour period [calendar week], the total
24	17		number of hours worked by a commissioned officer equals [plus the
25	18		number of hours of leave taken for which the officer is entitled to
26	19		compensation, including approved sick leave, vacation, holiday,
27	20		holiday compensatory time, emergency leave, administrative leave,
28	21		and jury duty, equal] more than eight [40] hours, the excess is
29	22		overtime[. For each calendar month, the overtime for each week
30	23		ending during that month shall be totaled. If the total overtime
31	24		for the month exceeds eight hours, the officer may receive, in
32	25		addition to the officer's regular monthly salary, a supplement
33	26		determined as follows:
34	27		[(1) a commissioned officer who accumulates more than
35	28		eight hours but less than 16 hours of overtime in a calendar month
36	29		may receive five percent of the officer's regular monthly salary;
37	30		[(2) a commissioned officer who accumulated 16 or more
38	31		hours but less than 32 hours of overtime in a calendar month may
39	32		receive 10 percent of the officer's regular monthly salary; and
40	33		[(3) a commissioned officer who accumulated 32 or more
41	34		hours of overtime in a calendar month may receive 15 percent of the
42	35		officer's regular monthly salary].
43	36		(b-1) If, during a work week, the total number of hours
44	37		worked by a commissioned officer equals more than 40 hours, the
45	38		excess is overtime.
46	39		(c) [The formula prescribed by Subsection (b) is the
47	40		exclusive method of computing state compensation for overtime
48	41		entitlements.] This section applies only to the computation of
49	42		overtime entitlements and does not apply to the method of
50	43		compensating a commissioned officer for working on regularly
51	44		scheduled state holidays.
52	45		(e) The department may compensate an officer commissioned
53	46		by the department for the overtime earned by the officer by:
54	47		(1) allowing or requiring the officer to take
55	48		compensatory leave at the rate of 1-1/2 hours of leave for each hour
56	49		of overtime earned; or
57	50		(2) paying the officer for the overtime hours earned
58	51		at the rate equal to 1-1/2 times the officer's regular hourly pay
59	52		rate [If the funds appropriated to the department to provide
60	53		supplemental pay are insufficient to pay all earned overtime
61	54		entitlements, the director may provide for compensatory time to be
62	55		taken during the biennium in which the entitlements are earned].
63	56		(f) If a conflict exists between this section and Section
64	57		659.015, this section controls.
65	58		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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