By: Stucky, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) H.B. No. 2486
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran
Affairs & Border Security; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to restoration of the position of public employees when
relieved of duty from the Texas military forces or a similar unit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 437.202(d), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) An employee of this state or a municipality, a county,
or another political subdivision of this state with at least five
full-time employees [A state employee] who is a member of the Texas
military forces, a reserve component of the armed forces, or a
member of a state or federally authorized urban search and rescue
team and who is ordered to duty by proper authority is entitled,
when relieved from duty, to be restored to the position that the
employee held when ordered to duty.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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