Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the official text

H.B. No. 1828

AN ACT

relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by

the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by

adding Section 493.0075 to read as follows:

Sec. 493.0075. DONATION OF ACCRUED COMPENSATORY TIME OR

ACCRUED ANNUAL LEAVE FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES. (a) The executive

director shall allow a correctional officer employed by the

department to voluntarily transfer to a legislative leave pool up

to eight hours of compensatory time or annual leave per year earned

by the correctional officer.

(b) The executive director or the executive director's

designee shall administer the legislative leave pool.

(c) The board shall adopt rules and prescribe procedures

relating to the operation of the legislative leave pool.

(d) The executive director or the executive director's

designee shall credit the legislative leave pool with the amount of

time contributed by a correctional officer employed by the

department and deduct a corresponding amount of time from the

correctional officer's earned compensatory time or annual leave as

if the correctional officer had used the time for personal

purposes.

(e) A correctional officer employed by the department is

entitled to use time contributed to the legislative leave pool if

the correctional officer uses the time for legislative leave on

behalf of an association:

(1) related to the correctional officer's employment

with the department;

(2) that has at least 5,000 active or retired members;

and

(3) that is governed by a board of directors.

(f) The executive director or the executive director's

designee shall transfer time from the pool to the correctional

officer and credit the time to the correctional officer.

(g) A correctional officer employed by the department may

only withdraw time from the legislative leave pool in coordination

with and with the consent of the president or designee of the

association described in Subsection (e). A correctional officer

may not draw more than 80 hours from the pool in a 160-hour work

cycle and may not draw more than 480 hours from the pool in a fiscal

year.

(h) A correctional officer employed by the department shall

use time from the legislative leave pool in accordance with rules

adopted by the board.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1828 was passed by the House on May 6,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 30, 1 present, not

voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1828 was passed by the Senate on May

25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

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Governor