BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 792 By: Burns Urban Affairs Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, a municipal police department's police dispatchers cannot work the same alternative work schedule, for example 12-hour shifts, as their police counterparts. H.B. 792 seeks to provide police dispatchers employed by the police department of certain municipalities the option to work these alternate schedules if a majority of the department's dispatchers vote in favor of an alternate work schedule. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize a municipality with a population of more than 10,000 to adopt an alternate work schedule for the municipal police department's police dispatchers if a majority of dispatchers for the department vote in favor of an alternate work schedule. The bill entitles a dispatcher working under such a schedule to overtime pay if the dispatcher works more hours during a calendar month than the number of hours in the normal work month of the majority of the municipality's employees other than firefighters and police officers. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2021.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 792
By: Burns
Urban Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 792
By: Burns
Urban Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, a municipal police department's police dispatchers cannot work the same alternative work schedule, for example 12-hour shifts, as their police counterparts. H.B. 792 seeks to provide police dispatchers employed by the police department of certain municipalities the option to work these alternate schedules if a majority of the department's dispatchers vote in favor of an alternate work schedule.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize a municipality with a population of more than 10,000 to adopt an alternate work schedule for the municipal police department's police dispatchers if a majority of dispatchers for the department vote in favor of an alternate work schedule. The bill entitles a dispatcher working under such a schedule to overtime pay if the dispatcher works more hours during a calendar month than the number of hours in the normal work month of the majority of the municipality's employees other than firefighters and police officers.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2021.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Currently, a municipal police department's police dispatchers cannot work the same alternative work schedule, for example 12-hour shifts, as their police counterparts. H.B. 792 seeks to provide police dispatchers employed by the police department of certain municipalities the option to work these alternate schedules if a majority of the department's dispatchers vote in favor of an alternate work schedule.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize a municipality with a population of more than 10,000 to adopt an alternate work schedule for the municipal police department's police dispatchers if a majority of dispatchers for the department vote in favor of an alternate work schedule. The bill entitles a dispatcher working under such a schedule to overtime pay if the dispatcher works more hours during a calendar month than the number of hours in the normal work month of the majority of the municipality's employees other than firefighters and police officers.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2021.