Tex. Gov't Code § 662.006 · Subchapter A. HOLIDAYS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES
OPTIONAL HOLIDAY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An individual who is a state employee on the last workday before or the first workday after an optional holiday, or on both workdays, is entitled, except as provided by Section 662.010, to a paid day off from working for a state agency on the holiday if:
(1) the holiday does not fall on a Saturday or Sunday;
(2) the employee agrees to give up, during the same fiscal year, a state holiday that:
(A) does not fall on a Saturday or Sunday; and
(B) the General Appropriations Act does not prohibit state agencies from observing; and
(3) the General Appropriations Act does not prohibit state agencies from observing the optional holiday.
(b) A state employee is entitled to a paid day off from working for a state agency on each day of an optional holiday that extends for more than one day if the employee:
(1) qualifies for the paid day off under Subsection (a); and
(2) agrees to give up during the same fiscal year an equivalent number of state holidays that:
(A) do not fall on a Saturday or Sunday; and
(B) the General Appropriations Act does not prohibit state agencies from observing.
(c) A state employee may not agree to give up the Friday after Thanksgiving Day or the 24th or 26th day of December.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1035, Sec. 29, eff. June 19, 1997.
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