HBA-TYH S.B. 672 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 672
By: Moncrief
State Affairs
4/27/1999
Engrossed



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, under Texas law, a state employee has one calendar year to
return to service before sick leave is removed.  S.B. 672 restores lost
sick leave to those former state employees returning to state employment
who left for less than one year prior to the current policy of being able
to retain sick leave for up to one calendar year. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Requires a state agency to restore a sick leave balance
accumulated before September 1, 1991, for any person currently employed by
the agency who forfeited a sick leave balance as a result of leaving
employment with a state agency before September 1, 1991, if the person was
not employed by any state agency for at least one month and entered
employment with another state agency not later than one year after the date
the person's prior employment with a state agency ended.  Provides that a
person must provide the agency employing the person with evidence
establishing that the person is entitled to have the sick leave balance
restored.  Provides that a lost sick leave balance must be restored in its
entirety, less any amount of the lost sick leave previously restored in any
state employment.  Authorizes a person to have a lost sick leave balance
restored only if the person would have been entitled to have the sick leave
balance restored under the General Appropriations Act if that Act had been
in effect when the person entered employment with the agency currently
employing the person.  Expiration date: September 1, 2000. 

SECTION 2. Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.