85R224 TSR-D
By: King of Uvalde H.B. No. 3015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to vacation leave time accounts for firefighter employee
organizations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 142.015 to read as follows:
Sec. 142.015. VACATION LEAVE TIME ACCOUNT FOR FIREFIGHTERS.
(a) A municipality shall establish and maintain a vacation leave
time account for each firefighter employee organization.
(b) A firefighter who is a member of an employee
organization may donate any amount of accumulated vacation time to
the vacation leave time account of the employee organization to
which the firefighter belongs.
(c) A firefighter who wishes to donate time to the account
established under this section must authorize the donation in
writing on a form provided by the employee organization and
approved by the municipality.
(d) Only a firefighter who is a member of an employee
organization may use the vacation time donated to the account of the
employee organization. A firefighter may use the time donated under
this section without receiving a reduction in salary and without
reimbursing the municipality.
(e) A request to use the vacation time in an employee
organization's vacation leave time account must be in writing and
be submitted to the municipality by the president or the equivalent
officer of the employee organization or by that officer's designee.
(f) The municipality shall account for the time donated to
each vacation leave time account and used from each account. The
municipality shall credit and debit the applicable vacation leave
time account on an hour-for-hour basis regardless of the cash value
of the time donated or used.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.