Texas Government Code 411.0161 – Donation of Accrued Compensatory Time or Accrued Annual Leave for Legislative Purposes
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(a) The director shall allow a department employee to voluntarily transfer to a legislative leave pool up to eight hours of compensatory time or annual leave per year earned by the employee.
(b) The director or designee shall administer the legislative leave pool.
Terms Used In Texas Government Code 411.0161
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The Public Safety Commission shall adopt rules and prescribe procedures relating to the operation of the legislative leave pool.
(d) The director or designee shall credit the legislative leave pool with the amount of time contributed by an employee and deduct a corresponding amount of time from the employee’s earned compensatory time or annual leave as if the employee had used the time for personal purposes.
(e) An employee is entitled to use time contributed to the legislative leave pool if the employee uses the time for legislative leave on behalf of a law enforcement association of at least 1,000 active or retired members governed by a board of directors.
(f) The director of the pool administrator shall transfer time from the pool to the employee and credit the time to the employee.
(g) An employee may only withdraw time from the legislative leave pool in coordination and with the consent of the president or designee of the law enforcement association described in Subsection (e), and may not draw more than 80 hours of time from the pool in a 160-hours work cycle with the maximum time taken not to exceed 480 hours per fiscal year.
(h) In addition to Subsection (g), the use of any time from the legislative leave pool must also be in accordance with rules adopted by the Public Safety Commission.