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Legislative Changes Affecting Salary Administration, 89th Legislature

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Changes to Leave Administration

Legislative Leave Pool

House Bill 1828 allows Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) correctional officers to voluntarily transfer up to eight hours of their accrued compensatory time or annual leave per year to a legislative leave pool. A TDCJ correctional officer may only withdraw time from the legislative leave pool in coordination with and with the consent of the president or designee of the association. The amount of leave that may be withdrawn from the pool may not exceed 80 hours in a 160-hour work cycle or 480 hours in a fiscal year.

Military Leave

House Bill 2513 establishes that a 24-hour or 48-hour work shift constitutes one workday for purposes of calculating the payment amount for a paid leave of absence from duties for qualifying military service in a fiscal year for a person classified as fire protection personnel, as defined in Texas Government Code, Section 419.021, who is an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision and who is a member of the Texas military forces, a reserve component of the armed forces, or a member of a state or federally authorized urban search and rescue team.

Compensatory Time for TDCJ Employees

Senate Bill 2405 removes the provision in Texas Government Code that requires TDCJ employees’ compensatory time off to expire if it is not taken during the 24-month period following the end of the workweek it was accrued in. Instead, compensatory time off that is not taken within the 24-month period will be credited to the employee’s annual leave balance.