S.B. No. 44

	AN ACT
	relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain
	disaster relief organizations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 661.9075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 661.9075.  VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
	ACTIVE IN DISASTER. (a) A state employee who is a volunteer of an
	organization that is a member of the Texas Voluntary Organizations
	Active in Disaster may be granted leave to participate in disaster
	relief services without a deduction in salary or loss of vacation
	time, sick leave, earned overtime credit, or state compensatory
	time if:
	(1)  the employee's supervisor authorizes the leave;
	(2)  the services in which the employee participates
	are provided for a state of disaster declared by the governor under
	Chapter 418; and
	(3)  the executive director of the employee's state
	agency approves the leave.
	(b)  Leave granted to a state employee under Subsection (a)
	may not exceed 10 days each fiscal year.
	SECTION 2.  Section 661.907, Government Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 44 passed the Senate on
	April 12, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 10, 2021, by the
	following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 44 passed the House, with
	amendment, on April 23, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
	Nays 1, two present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
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	Date
	______________________________
	Governor