Bill Text: TX HB3980 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the business leave time account for a firefighter employee organization in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3980 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3980-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3980 |
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relating to the business leave time account for a firefighter | ||
employee organization in certain municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 142.014, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) Donations to the business leave time account of an | ||
employee organization by its members may be authorized in one of the | ||
following ways: | ||
(1) if the majority of the membership of the employee | ||
organization has not affirmatively voted to require contributions | ||
by the employee organization's members to its business leave time | ||
account: | ||
(A) a firefighter must authorize the donation in | ||
writing on a form provided by the employee organization and | ||
approved by the municipality; and | ||
(B) after receiving the signed authorization on | ||
an approved form, the municipality shall transfer donated time to | ||
the account monthly until the municipality receives the | ||
firefighter's written revocation of the authorization; or | ||
(2) if the majority of the membership of the employee | ||
organization has affirmatively voted to require contributions by | ||
the employee organization's members to its business leave time | ||
account: | ||
(A) except as provided by Paragraph (C), the | ||
municipality shall transfer donated time to the employee | ||
organization's business leave time account from the accumulated | ||
vacation or compensatory time of each firefighter who is a member of | ||
the employee organization in the amount approved by vote of the | ||
employee organization not to exceed the amount allowed under | ||
Subsection (c); | ||
(B) the municipality shall transfer the donated | ||
time to the account monthly beginning with the first calendar month | ||
that begins after the date of the employee organization vote | ||
requiring contributions; | ||
(C) each year, during the period beginning on the | ||
60th day before the anniversary of the first day of the first | ||
calendar month in which donations were first transferred to the | ||
business leave time account of the employee organization under | ||
Paragraph (B) and ending on the 30th day before that anniversary, a | ||
firefighter who is a member of the employee organization may inform | ||
the municipality in writing on a form provided by the employee | ||
organization and approved by the municipality that the firefighter | ||
chooses to not donate time to the account during the 12-month period | ||
beginning with that anniversary; and | ||
(D) the employee organization shall make up for | ||
the costs which incurred during the business leave by payment to the | ||
municipality in the amount equal to the overtime, pension and | ||
healthcare costs associated with replacing the firefighter on | ||
business leave. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 142.014(h), Local Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3980 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 4, 3 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3980 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |