Tex. Gov't Code § 659.254 · Subchapter K. PROMOTIONS, RECLASSIFICATIONS, AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS TO SALARY
CLASSIFIED POSITION REALLOCATED OR RECLASSIFIED TO DIFFERENT SALARY GROUP.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to positions classified under the state's position classification plan.
(b) In this section:
(1) "higher salary group" means a salary group with a higher minimum salary rate; and
(2) "lower salary group" means a salary group with a lower minimum salary rate.
(c) An employee whose classified position is reallocated by the General Appropriations Act or reclassified under Chapter 654 to a higher salary group will be paid at the minimum salary rate in the higher salary group or at the salary rate the employee would have received without the reallocation or reclassification, whichever rate is higher, except to maintain desirable salary relationships among employees in the affected positions, the salary may be adjusted not more than:
(1) two steps higher, if the employee's salary group is divided into steps by the General Appropriations Act; or
(2) 6.8 percent higher, if the employee's salary group is not divided into steps by the General Appropriations Act.
(d) An employee whose classified position is reallocated by the General Appropriations Act or reclassified under Chapter 654 to a lower salary group will be paid at the salary rate that the employee would have received had the position not been reallocated or reclassified, not to exceed the maximum rate of the lower salary group.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 279, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 34, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.659.htm
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