Bill Text: TX HB995 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to sheriff's department disability leave in certain counties.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB995 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB995-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 995 |
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relating to sheriff's department disability leave in certain | ||
counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 158, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Sections 158.041 and 158.042 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 158.041. ILLNESS OR INJURY LEAVE OF ABSENCE. (a) A | ||
county shall provide to an employee a leave of absence for an | ||
illness or injury related to the employee's activities performed in | ||
the line of duty. The leave is with full pay for a period | ||
commensurate with the nature of the line of duty illness or injury. | ||
If necessary, the leave shall continue for at least one year. | ||
(b) At the end of the one-year period, the commissioners | ||
court of the county may extend the line of duty illness or injury | ||
leave at full or reduced pay. If the employee's leave is not | ||
extended or the employee's salary is reduced below 60 percent of the | ||
employee's regular monthly salary, and the employee is a member of a | ||
pension fund, the employee may retire on pension until the employee | ||
is able to return to duty. | ||
(c) If pension benefits are not available to an employee who | ||
is temporarily disabled by a line of duty injury or illness and if | ||
the year at full pay and any extensions granted by the commissioners | ||
court have expired, the employee may use accumulated sick leave, | ||
vacation time, and other accumulated time before the employee is | ||
placed on temporary leave. | ||
(d) If an employee is temporarily disabled by an injury or | ||
illness that is not related to activities performed in the | ||
employee's line of duty, the employee may use all sick leave, | ||
vacation time, and other accumulated time before the employee is | ||
placed on temporary leave. | ||
(e) After recovery from a temporary disability, an employee | ||
shall be reinstated at the same rank and with the same seniority the | ||
employee had before going on temporary leave. | ||
(f) While an employee who is temporarily disabled is on | ||
leave, another employee may voluntarily do the work of the employee | ||
who is temporarily disabled or donate leave time to maintain the | ||
salary for the employee who is temporarily disabled until the | ||
temporarily disabled employee returns to duty. | ||
Sec. 158.042. REAPPOINTMENT AFTER RECOVERY FROM | ||
DISABILITY. With the commission's approval and if otherwise | ||
qualified, an employee who has been certified by a physician | ||
selected by a pension fund as having recovered from a disability for | ||
which the employee has been receiving a monthly disability pension | ||
is eligible for reappointment to the classified position that the | ||
employee held on the date the employee qualified for the monthly | ||
disability pension. | ||
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, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 995 was passed by the House on April | ||
20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 7, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 995 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |