| 1 | 1 | | 89R5503 JDK-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Orr H.B. No. 1828 |
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| 7 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by |
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| 10 | 10 | | the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 13 | 13 | | adding Section 493.0075 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | Sec. 493.0075. DONATION OF ACCRUED COMPENSATORY TIME OR |
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| 15 | 15 | | ACCRUED ANNUAL LEAVE FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES. (a) The executive |
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| 16 | 16 | | director shall allow a correctional officer employed by the |
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| 17 | 17 | | department to voluntarily transfer to a legislative leave pool up |
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| 18 | 18 | | to eight hours of compensatory time or annual leave per year earned |
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| 19 | 19 | | by the correctional officer. |
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| 20 | 20 | | (b) The executive director or the executive director's |
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| 21 | 21 | | designee shall administer the legislative leave pool. |
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| 22 | 22 | | (c) The board shall adopt rules and prescribe procedures |
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| 23 | 23 | | relating to the operation of the legislative leave pool. |
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| 24 | 24 | | (d) The executive director or the executive director's |
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| 25 | 25 | | designee shall credit the legislative leave pool with the amount of |
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| 26 | 26 | | time contributed by a correctional officer employed by the |
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| 27 | 27 | | department and deduct a corresponding amount of time from the |
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| 28 | 28 | | correctional officer's earned compensatory time or annual leave as |
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| 29 | 29 | | if the correctional officer had used the time for personal |
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| 30 | 30 | | purposes. |
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| 31 | 31 | | (e) A correctional officer employed by the department is |
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| 32 | 32 | | entitled to use time contributed to the legislative leave pool if |
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| 33 | 33 | | the correctional officer uses the time for legislative leave on |
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| 34 | 34 | | behalf of an association: |
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| 35 | 35 | | (1) related to the correctional officer's employment |
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| 36 | 36 | | with the department; |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) that has at least 5,000 active or retired members; |
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| 38 | 38 | | and |
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| 39 | 39 | | (3) that is governed by a board of directors. |
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| 40 | 40 | | (f) The executive director or the executive director's |
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| 41 | 41 | | designee shall transfer time from the pool to the correctional |
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| 42 | 42 | | officer and credit the time to the correctional officer. |
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| 43 | 43 | | (g) A correctional officer employed by the department may |
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| 44 | 44 | | only withdraw time from the legislative leave pool in coordination |
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| 45 | 45 | | with and with the consent of the president or designee of the |
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| 46 | 46 | | association described in Subsection (e). A correctional officer |
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| 47 | 47 | | may not draw more than 80 hours from the pool in a 160-hour work |
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| 48 | 48 | | cycle and may not draw more than 480 hours from the pool in a fiscal |
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| 49 | 49 | | year. |
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| 50 | 50 | | (h) A correctional officer employed by the department shall |
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| 51 | 51 | | use time from the legislative leave pool in accordance with rules |
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| 52 | 52 | | adopted by the board. |
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| 53 | 53 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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