Tex. Gov't Code § 614.015 · Subchapter A-1. MENTAL HEALTH LEAVE
MENTAL HEALTH LEAVE FOR PEACE OFFICERS AND TELECOMMUNICATORS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the state or of a political subdivision of the state authorized by law to employ peace officers.
(2) "Telecommunicator" means a person authorized to act as a telecommunicator under Section 1701.405, Occupations Code.
(b) Each law enforcement agency, and each agency of the state or of a political subdivision of the state that employs a full-time telecommunicator, shall develop and adopt a policy allowing the use of mental health leave by the peace officers and full-time telecommunicators, as applicable, employed by the agency who experience a traumatic event in the scope of that employment.
(c) A mental health leave policy adopted under this section must:
(1) provide clear and objective guidelines establishing the circumstances under which a peace officer or telecommunicator is granted and may use mental health leave;
(2) entitle a peace officer or telecommunicator to mental health leave without a deduction in salary or other compensation;
(3) enumerate the number of mental health leave days available to a peace officer or telecommunicator; and
(4) detail the level of anonymity for a peace officer or telecommunicator who takes mental health leave.
(d) A mental health leave policy adopted under this section may provide a list of mental health services available to peace officers and telecommunicators in the area of the law enforcement or employing agency.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 396 (S.B. 1359), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1119 (H.B. 1486), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
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