85R5580 MCK-D
By: Blanco H.B. No. 830
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to parental leave for certain state employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 661.913(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The employee must first use all available and applicable
paid vacation and sick leave while taking the leave authorized by
this section. An employee whose leave under this section exceeds
the amount of all available and applicable paid vacation and sick
leave is entitled, after exhausting that leave, to not more than 20
days of additional paid leave. Any leave taken by the employee
under this section after exhausting the additional paid leave [,
and the remainder of the leave] is unpaid.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.