Bill Text: TX HB3216 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to legislative leave for certain peace officers commissioned by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3216 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3216-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to legislative leave for certain peace officers commissioned by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3216 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3216-Introduced.html
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By: Harris | H.B. No. 3216 |
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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, 2021. |