Bill Text: TX HB4309 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain functions relating to state employee leave from the state auditor to the comptroller.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-20 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB4309 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4309-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain functions relating to state employee leave from the state auditor to the comptroller.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-20 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB4309 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4309-Introduced.html
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By: Zerwas | H.B. No. 4309 |
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relating to the transfer of certain functions relating to state | ||
employee leave from the state auditor to the comptroller. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 661.151, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 661.151. COMPTROLLER [ |
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(a) The comptroller [ |
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interpretation of this chapter [ |
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(b) The comptroller [ |
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governor and the legislature any state agency or institution of | ||
higher education that practices exceptions to those laws. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 661.202(j), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(j) A state agency shall maintain a written statement | ||
covering the policies and procedures for an extension of leave | ||
under Subsection (i) and shall make the statement available to all | ||
agency employees. The state agency shall provide a copy of the | ||
statement to the comptroller [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 661.9041(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) The comptroller [ |
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to assist state agencies in determining the amount of emergency | ||
leave to grant to an employee under this section as differential | ||
pay. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 661.923(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) Not later than the last day of each quarter of a state | ||
fiscal year, an agency shall submit a report to the comptroller's | ||
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includes the name of each agency employee described by Subsection | ||
(a)(1) who has been granted 168 hours or more of leave under this | ||
section during that fiscal quarter. The report must include, for | ||
each employee, a brief statement as to the reason the employee | ||
remains on leave. | ||
SECTION 5. (a) Not later than September 10, 2019, the | ||
following are transferred from the state auditor to the comptroller | ||
of public accounts: | ||
(1) the powers and duties of the state auditor | ||
relating to leave for state employees under Chapter 661, Government | ||
Code; and | ||
(2) all property and records in the custody of the | ||
state auditor that are related to a power or duty transferred under | ||
this subsection and all funds appropriated by the legislature for | ||
that power or duty. | ||
(b) A rule, form, policy, procedure, or decision of the | ||
state auditor that is related to a power or duty described by | ||
Subsection (a) of this section continues in effect as a rule, form, | ||
policy, procedure, or decision of the comptroller of public | ||
accounts until superseded by an act of the comptroller of public | ||
accounts. | ||
(c) A reference in law or administrative rule to the state | ||
auditor that relates to a power or duty transferred under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section means the comptroller of public | ||
accounts. | ||
SECTION 6. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, but not later than September 10, 2019, the state | ||
auditor and the comptroller of public accounts shall enter into a | ||
memorandum of understanding that: | ||
(1) identifies in detail the applicable powers and | ||
duties that are transferred by this Act; and | ||
(2) establishes a plan for the identification and | ||
transfer of the records, property, and unspent appropriations of | ||
the state auditor that are used for purposes of the state auditor's | ||
powers and duties that are transferred by this Act. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |