Tex. Gov't Code § 661.901 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS LEAVE PROVISIONS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES
APPLICABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This subchapter applies only to a state employee employed in the executive or judicial branch of state government.
(b) The leave policies for employees of the legislative branch, including employees of the lieutenant governor, are determined as follows:
(1) for employees of either house of the legislature, a member of the legislature, or the lieutenant governor, by the presiding officer of the appropriate house of the legislature; and
(2) for employees of a legislative agency, by the administrative head of the agency.
(c) An employee of an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, is eligible to accrue or take paid leave under this subchapter only if the employee:
(1) is employed to work at least 20 hours per week for a period of at least four and one-half months; and
(2) is not employed in a position for which the employee is required to be a student as a condition of the employment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 279, Sec. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.661.htm
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- 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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