House of Representatives

SB 1004

  public safety department; employee leave

Sponsor: Senator Smith

 

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 S/E

Committee on Retirement and Government Operations

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Caucus and COW

 

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As Transmitted to the Governor

 

SB 1004 allows the director of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to grant industrial injury leave to sworn DPS employees, and requires the law enforcement merit system council to adopt rules allowing the transfer of accumulated annual leave between employees in different agencies who are family members.

Provisions

·                      Changes the name of the council to the law enforcement merit system council.

·                      Includes registrant and provisional certificate in regulations regarding investigations of offenses that would preclude a person from holding a security guard license, provisional certificate or registration certificate.

 

·                      Specifies that current licensees or registrants who have a security guard license or certificate are included in state criminal history records checks.

 

·                      Allows the director of DPS to grant a maximum of 2,080 hours of industrial injury leave to any sworn department employee injured in the course of duty and whose work-related injury prevents the employee from performing normal duties.

 

·                      Specifies that the injury leave is in addition to vacation or sick leave and does not affect the employee’s eligibility for other benefits, including worker’s compensation.

 

·                      States that an employee forfeits any unused injury leave and is not eligible for payment upon retirement or reclassification to civilian status.

 

·                      Requires the director of DPS to adopt rules and procedures regarding industrial injury leave hours, subject to approval by the law enforcement merit system council.

 

·                      Requires the law enforcement merit system council to develop rules that allow for the transfer of accumulated annual leave from one employee to another employee of a different agency, department, board or commission, if the employees are members of the same family.

 

·                      Defines family as spouse, natural child, adopted child, foster child, stepchild, natural parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law or father-in-law.

 

 

 

 

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45th Legislature                                                                                                                                

First Regular Session                                   2                                                              May 2, 2001

 

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