Bill Text: TX HB3015 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Relating to vacation leave time accounts for firefighter employee organizations.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-15 - Received from the House [HB3015 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3015-Engrossed.html
  85R19915 JCG-D
 
  By: King of Uvalde, Raney, Guillen H.B. No. 3015
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to vacation leave time accounts for firefighter employee
  organizations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 142.015 to read as follows:
         Sec. 142.015.  VACATION LEAVE TIME ACCOUNT FOR FIREFIGHTERS.
  (a)  A municipality shall establish and maintain a vacation leave
  time account for each firefighter employee organization.
         (b)  A firefighter who is a member of an employee
  organization may donate any amount of accumulated vacation time to
  the vacation leave time account of the employee organization to
  which the firefighter belongs.
         (c)  A firefighter who wishes to donate vacation time to the
  account established under this section must authorize the donation
  in writing on a form provided by the employee organization and
  approved by the municipality.
         (d)  Only a firefighter who is a member of an employee
  organization may use the vacation time donated to the account of the
  employee organization.  A firefighter may use the vacation time
  donated under this section without receiving a reduction in salary
  and without reimbursing the municipality.
         (e)  A request to use the vacation time in an employee
  organization's vacation leave time account must be:
               (1)  in writing; and
               (2)  submitted to the municipality:
                     (A)  by the president or the equivalent officer of
  the employee organization or by that officer's designee; and
                     (B)  at least three days before the date for which
  the vacation time is requested.
         (f)  Before vacation time in an employee organization's
  vacation leave time account may be used by a firefighter, the fire
  chief, or the fire chief's designee, must approve the request to use
  the vacation time.  The fire chief or the fire chief's designee
  shall approve a timely request unless the operational needs of the
  fire department justify that the request be denied.
         (g)  The municipality shall account for the vacation time
  donated to each vacation leave time account and used from each
  account.  The municipality shall credit and debit the applicable
  vacation leave time account on an hour-for-hour basis regardless of
  the cash value of the vacation time donated or used.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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