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HB1828 • 2025

Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Orr | Wharton | Jones, Venton
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed without the Governor's signature

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  4. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage reported

  7. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  8. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  9. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  10. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  11. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  12. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  13. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  14. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  15. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  16. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  17. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  18. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  19. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  20. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  21. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  22. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  23. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  24. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  25. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  26. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  27. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  28. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  29. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1471

  30. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  31. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  32. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  33. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  34. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  35. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  36. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  37. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  38. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  39. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  40. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  41. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  42. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  43. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  44. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  45. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  46. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Corrections

  47. 2025-01-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 1828 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 1828

AN ACT

relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by

the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by

adding Section 493.0075 to read as follows:

Sec.

493.0075.

DONATION OF ACCRUED COMPENSATORY TIME OR

ACCRUED ANNUAL LEAVE FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES. (a) The executive

director shall allow a correctional officer employed by the

department to voluntarily transfer to a legislative leave pool up

to eight hours of compensatory time or annual leave per year earned

by the correctional officer.

(b)

The executive director or the executive director's

designee shall administer the legislative leave pool.

(c)

The board shall adopt rules and prescribe procedures

relating to the operation of the legislative leave pool.

(d)

The executive director or the executive director's

designee shall credit the legislative leave pool with the amount of

time contributed by a correctional officer employed by the

department and deduct a corresponding amount of time from the

correctional officer's earned compensatory time or annual leave as

if the correctional officer had used the time for personal

purposes.

(e)

A correctional officer employed by the department is

entitled to use time contributed to the legislative leave pool if

the correctional officer uses the time for legislative leave on

behalf of an association:

(1)

related to the correctional officer's employment

with the department;

(2)

that has at least 5,000 active or retired members;

and

(3) that is governed by a board of directors.

(f)

The executive director or the executive director's

designee shall transfer time from the pool to the correctional

officer and credit the time to the correctional officer.

(g)

A correctional officer employed by the department may

only withdraw time from the legislative leave pool in coordination

with and with the consent of the president or designee of the

association described in Subsection (e). A correctional officer

may not draw more than 80 hours from the pool in a 160-hour work

cycle and may not draw more than 480 hours from the pool in a fiscal

year.

(h)

A correctional officer employed by the department shall

use time from the legislative leave pool in accordance with rules

adopted by the board.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1828 was passed by the House on May 6,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 30, 1 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1828 was passed by the Senate on May

25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor