Tex. Gov't Code § 659.2531 · Subchapter K. PROMOTIONS, RECLASSIFICATIONS, AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS TO SALARY
TRANSFER WITHIN AGENCY BETWEEN CLASSIFIED POSITIONS ALLOCATED TO SAME SALARY GROUP.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Classified position" means a position classified under the state's position classification plan.
(2) "Transfer" means the transfer of a state employee within a state agency between two classified positions that:
(A) are allocated to the same salary group; and
(B) have different position titles as listed in the General Appropriations Act.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a state employee's annual salary rate immediately after a transfer may not exceed:
(1) the rate for the salary step that is one step higher than the salary step at which the employee was paid immediately before the transfer, if the classified position to which the employee transfers is allocated to a salary group that is divided into steps; or
(2) 103.4 percent of the employee's annual salary rate immediately before the transfer, if the classified position to which the employee transfers is allocated to a salary group that is not divided into steps.
(c) A state employee's annual salary rate immediately after a transfer may not exceed the maximum rate for the appropriate salary group.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1310, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.659.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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