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.