By: Hughes S.B. No. 922
(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2023; March 3, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 21, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 21, 2023,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 922 By: Hughes
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to legislative leave for certain peace officers
commissioned by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Parks and Wildlife
Code, is amended by adding Section 11.0183 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.0183. DONATION OF ACCRUED COMPENSATORY TIME OR
ACCRUED ANNUAL LEAVE FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES. (a) The director
shall allow a peace officer commissioned by the department to
voluntarily transfer to a legislative leave pool up to eight hours
of compensatory time or annual leave per year earned by the peace
officer.
(b) The director or the director's designee shall
administer the legislative leave pool.
(c) The commission shall adopt rules and prescribe
procedures relating to the operation of the legislative leave pool.
(d) The director or the director's designee shall credit the
legislative leave pool with the amount of time contributed by a
peace officer commissioned by the department and deduct a
corresponding amount of time from the peace officer's earned
compensatory time or annual leave as if the peace officer had used
the time for personal purposes.
(e) A peace officer commissioned by the department is
entitled to use time contributed to the legislative leave pool if
the peace officer uses the time for legislative leave on behalf of a
law enforcement association:
(1) related to the peace officer's employment with the
department;
(2) that has at least 150 active or retired members;
and
(3) that is governed by a board of directors.
(f) The director or the director's designee shall transfer
time from the pool to the peace officer and credit the time to the
peace officer.
(g) A peace officer commissioned by the department may only
withdraw time from the legislative leave pool in coordination with
and with the consent of the president or designee of the law
enforcement association described in Subsection (e). A peace
officer may not draw more than 80 hours from the pool in a 160-hour
work cycle and may not draw more than 480 hours from the pool in a
fiscal year.
(h) A peace officer commissioned by the department shall use
time from the legislative leave pool in accordance with rules
adopted by the commission.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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