Bill Text: TX HB1470 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to legislative leave for certain peace officers commissioned by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB1470 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1470-Introduced.html
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| By: Orr | H.B. No. 1470 | |
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| 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 300 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. | ||
