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1	1	2023S0201-1 02/22/23
2	2	By: Perry S.B. No. 1967
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to compensation and leave for certain employees of the
8	8	office of inspector general of the Texas Juvenile Justice
9	9	Department.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 659.301(5), Government Code, is amended
12	12	to read as follows:
13	13	(5) "State employee" means an individual who:
14	14	(A) is a commissioned law enforcement officer of
15	15	the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Facilities Commission,
16	16	the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Texas Department of
17	17	Criminal Justice, the attorney general, [or] the insurance fraud
18	18	unit of the Texas Department of Insurance, or the office of
19	19	inspector general of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department;
20	20	(B) is a commissioned security officer of the
21	21	comptroller;
22	22	(C) is a law enforcement officer commissioned by
23	23	the Parks and Wildlife Commission;
24	24	(D) is a commissioned peace officer of an
25	25	institution of higher education;
26	26	(E) is an employee or official of the Board of
27	27	Pardons and Paroles or the parole division of the Texas Department
28	28	of Criminal Justice if the employee or official has routine direct
29	29	contact with inmates of any penal or correctional institution or
30	30	with administratively released prisoners subject to the board's
31	31	jurisdiction;
32	32	(F) has been certified to the Employees
33	33	Retirement System of Texas under Section 815.505 as having begun
34	34	employment as a law enforcement officer or custodial officer,
35	35	unless the individual has been certified to the system as having
36	36	ceased employment as a law enforcement officer or custodial
37	37	officer;
38	38	(G) before May 29, 1987, received hazardous duty
39	39	pay based on the terms of any state law if the individual holds a
40	40	position designated under that law as eligible for the pay; or
41	41	(H) is a security officer employed by the Texas
42	42	Military Department.
43	43	SECTION 2. Section 661.918(a), Government Code, is amended
44	44	to read as follows:
45	45	(a) This section applies to a peace officer under Article
46	46	2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, who is commissioned as a law
47	47	enforcement officer or agent, including a ranger, by:
48	48	(1) the Public Safety Commission and the director of
49	49	the Department of Public Safety;
50	50	(2) the Parks and Wildlife Commission;
51	51	(3) the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;
52	52	(4) the attorney general; [or]
53	53	(5) the insurance fraud unit of the Texas Department
54	54	of Insurance; or
55	55	(6) the office of inspector general of the Texas
56	56	Juvenile Justice Department.
57	57	SECTION 3. Section 242.102, Human Resources Code, is
58	58	amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
59	59	(j) The department shall ensure that a peace officer
60	60	commissioned under Subsection (d) is compensated according to
61	61	Schedule C of the position classification salary schedule
62	62	prescribed by the General Appropriations Act.
63	63	SECTION 4. (a) The classification officer in the office of
64	64	the state auditor shall classify the position of commissioned peace
65	65	officer employed by the office of inspector general of the Texas
66	66	Juvenile Justice Department as a Schedule C position under the
67	67	Texas Position Classification Plan.
68	68	(b) The change made by the classification officer as
69	69	required by this section applies beginning with the state fiscal
70	70	biennium beginning September 1, 2023.
71	71	(c) This section expires September 1, 2025.
72	72	SECTION 5. Section 661.918(a), Government Code, as amended
73	73	by this Act, applies only to an injury that occurs on or after the
74	74	effective date of this Act.
75	75	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.