1-1     By:  Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - West)                  H.B. No. 1113
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2001;
 1-3     April 26, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2001, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to legislative leave time accounts for police officers in
 1-9     certain municipalities.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 614, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 614.011 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 614.011.  LEGISLATIVE LEAVE TIME ACCOUNT. (a)  This
1-14     section applies only to police officers employed by a municipality
1-15     with a population of one million or more that has not adopted
1-16     Chapter 174, Local Government Code, and to which Section 143.1261,
1-17     Local Government Code, does not apply.
1-18           (b)  A police officer may donate not more than two hours for
1-19     each month of accumulated vacation or compensatory time to the
1-20     legislative leave time account of an employee organization.  The
1-21     municipality shall establish and maintain a legislative leave time
1-22     account for each employee organization.
1-23           (c)  The police officer must authorize the donation in
1-24     writing on a form provided by the employee organization and
1-25     approved by the municipality.  After receiving the signed
1-26     authorization on an approved form, the municipality shall transfer
1-27     donated time to the account monthly until the municipality
1-28     receives the police officer's written revocation of the
1-29     authorization.
1-30           (d)  Only a police officer who is a member of an employee
1-31     organization may use for legislative leave purposes the time
1-32     donated to the account of that employee organization.  A police
1-33     officer may use for legislative leave purposes the time donated
1-34     under this section instead of reimbursing the municipality under
1-35     Section 614.005.
1-36           (e)  A request to use for legislative leave purposes the time
1-37     in an employee organization's time account must be in writing and
1-38     submitted to the municipality by the president or the equivalent
1-39     officer of the employee organization or by that officer's designee.
1-40           (f)  The municipality shall account for the time donated to
1-41     the account and used from the account.  The municipality shall
1-42     credit and debit an account on an hour-for-hour basis regardless of
1-43     the cash value of the time donated or used.
1-44           (g)  An employee organization may not use for legislative
1-45     leave purposes more than 4,000 hours from its legislative leave
1-46     time account under this section in a calendar year. This subsection
1-47     does not prevent an employee organization from accumulating more
1-48     than 4,000 hours, but only addresses the total number of donated
1-49     hours that an employee organization may use in any calendar year.
1-50           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-51     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-52     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-53     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-54     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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