Tex. Lab. Code § 501.045 · Subchapter C. ADMINISTRATION
EFFECT OF EMERGENCY LEAVE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Payments for emergency leave authorized by the administrative head of a state agency in accordance with the General Appropriations Act for an employee receiving income benefits under this chapter may not:
(1) exceed for a month the amount computed by subtracting the amount of income benefits received for the month from the basic monthly wage of the employee; and
(2) be paid for a period longer than six months after the date on which benefits begin.
(b) The administrative head authorizing the emergency leave payments shall review the merits of each case individually.
(c) If payment for emergency leave is authorized, the state agency shall attach a statement of the reasons for the authorization to its duplicate payroll voucher for the first payroll period affected by the leave.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.501.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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