Tex. Gov't Code § 661.917 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS LEAVE PROVISIONS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES
DONATION OF BLOOD.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A state agency shall allow each agency employee sufficient time off, without a deduction in salary or accrued leave, to donate blood.
(b) An employee may not receive time off under this section unless the employee obtains approval from the employee's supervisor before taking time off.
(c) On returning to work after taking time off under this section, an employee shall provide the employee's supervisor with proof that the employee donated blood during the time off. If an employee fails to provide proof that the employee donated blood during the time off, the state agency shall deduct the period for which the employee was granted time off from the employee's salary or accrued leave, whichever the employee chooses.
(d) An employee may receive time off under this section not more than four times in a fiscal year.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 177, Sec. 1, 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.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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