Bill Text: TX SB44 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 44 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain disaster relief organizations.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB44 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB44-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 44




	AN ACT
	relating to leave for state employees who are volunteers of certain
	disaster relief organizations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 661.9075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 661.9075. VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
	ACTIVE IN DISASTER. (a) A state employee who is a volunteer of an
	organization that is a member of the Texas Voluntary Organizations
	Active in Disaster may be granted leave to participate in disaster
	relief services without a deduction in salary or loss of vacation
	time, sick leave, earned overtime credit, or state compensatory
	time if:
	(1) the employee's supervisor authorizes the leave;
	(2) the services in which the employee participates
	are provided for a state of disaster declared by the governor under
	Chapter 418; and
	(3) the executive director of the employee's state
	agency approves the leave.
	(b) Leave granted to a state employee under Subsection (a)
	may not exceed 10 days each fiscal year.
	SECTION 2. Section 661.907, Government Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 44 passed the Senate on
	April 12, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 10, 2021, by the
	following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 44 passed the House, with
	amendment, on April 23, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
	Nays 1, two present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor