Bill Text: TX HB2486 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to restoration of the position of public employees when relieved of duty from the Texas military forces or a similar unit.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB2486 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2486-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2486 |
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relating to restoration of the position of public employees when | ||
relieved of duty from the Texas military forces or a similar unit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 437.202(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) An employee of this state or a municipality, a county, | ||
or another political subdivision of this state with at least five | ||
full-time employees [ |
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military forces, a reserve component of the armed forces, or a | ||
member of a state or federally authorized urban search and rescue | ||
team and who is ordered to duty by proper authority is entitled, | ||
when relieved from duty, to be restored to the position that the | ||
employee held when ordered to duty. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2486 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 7, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2486 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |