Title LG, Local Government Code

Sec. 157.005. SUBROGATION. (a) A county that has paid medical expenses, doctor bills, hospital bills, or salary for a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, deputy constable, or other county or precinct law enforcement official under Article III, Section 52e, of the Texas Constituti…

Sec. 157.006. PAYMENTS FOR CERTAIN HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE. (a) A hospital district created under Article IX of the Texas Constitution or a county may purchase and pay the premiums for a conversion policy or other health insurance coverage for a person who is diagnosed as havin…

Sec. 157.007. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. (a) A county that chooses to provide medical or related benefits may operate under this subchapter or Subchapter F. (b) A county operating under this subchapter that previously created a fund under Section 157.102 may continue the fund o…

Sec. 157.008. INSURANCE POOL OR INSURANCE COMPANY NOT CREATED. If a county provides for medical care and hospitalization or provides for compensation, accident, hospital, and disability insurance to persons listed under Section 157.002(a)(1), the county: (1) has not created an in…

Sec. 157.021. HOURS OF WORK OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES. (a) In a county with a population of 265,000 or more, the commissioners court may adopt and enforce uniform rules on the hours of work of department heads, assistants, deputies, and other employees whose compensation is set or appr…

Sec. 157.022. HOURS OF WORK OF PEACE OFFICERS IN COUNTIES OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION. (a) A peace officer employed by a county with a population of more than one million may not be required to work more hours during a calendar week than the number of hours in the normal work week o…

Sec. 157.041. GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE. (a) The commissioners court of a county may obtain insurance or similar coverage from a governmental pool operating under Chapter 119 or a self-insurance fund or risk retention group operating under Chapter 2259, Government Code, for an …

Sec. 157.042. MOTOR VEHICLE LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR PEACE OFFICERS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) A county that has a population of more than 1.3 million and in which a municipality with a population of more than one million is primarily located shall insure its sheriff, constables, an…

Sec. 157.043. GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR COUNTY OFFICIALS. (a) In this section, "county officer or employee" includes a county or precinct peace officer, the district attorney, or an officer of a special purpose district located in whole or in part in the county. (b) The com…

Sec. 157.061. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Child care services" means the care, training, education, custody, treatment, and supervision of children for all or part of a day. (2) "County juror" means a juror in a justice, county, or district court in a county. Added by A…

Sec. 157.062. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH PROGRAM. The commissioners court of a county with a population of 500,000 or more may establish a program by which the county provides child care services to benefit county employees, county jurors, and their children. Added by Acts 1989, 71st…

Sec. 157.063. ELIGIBLE CHILDREN. Any child of a county employee or county juror, including a stepchild, foster child, or other child in the possession of the employee or juror under a court order, is eligible to participate in the child care program subject to the limitations imp…

Sec. 157.064. SPACE FOR PROGRAM. The commissioners court may set aside space in an existing county facility or may acquire by lease or purchase additional space for the child care program. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 37(a), eff. Aug. 28, 1989.

Sec. 157.065. SCOPE OF PROGRAM. (a) The commissioners court may determine its own guidelines about the scope of the child care program. The guidelines must include provisions relating to fees for participation in the program, ages of children who may participate, services to be a…

Sec. 157.066. STAFF. (a) The commissioners court may employ a child care administrator to supervise the administration of the program and, with the approval of the court, to employ the necessary staff to administer the program. (b) Instead of exercising the authority under Subsec…

Sec. 157.067. FEES. (a) The commissioners court may set fees to be charged for the child care services. A fee may be set at any amount not to exceed the actual cost of providing the service. If the amount of a fee is less than the cost of providing the service, the difference bet…

Sec. 157.071. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Administrator" means the person designated by the commissioners court of a county to administer the county's sick leave pool program. (2) "Employee" means a district, county, or precinct employee with 12 or more months of contin…

Sec. 157.072. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH PROGRAM FOR SICK LEAVE POOL. (a) The commissioners court of a county may establish a program within the county to allow an employee to voluntarily transfer sick leave time earned by the employee to a county sick leave pool. (b) The commissione…

Sec. 157.073. ADMINISTRATION OF SICK LEAVE POOL PROGRAM. (a) The commissioners court may adopt rules and prescribe procedures and forms relating to the operation of the county sick leave pool program. The commissioners court by rule may require an employee to: (1) enroll in the c…

Sec. 157.074. EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTION TO SICK LEAVE POOL. (a) To contribute time to the county sick leave pool, an employee must submit an application to the administrator in the form prescribed by the commissioners court. (b) On approval by the administrator, in a fiscal year the …

Sec. 157.075. EMPLOYEE WITHDRAWAL FROM SICK LEAVE POOL. (a) An employee is eligible to use time contributed to the county sick leave pool if: (1) because of a catastrophic injury or illness, the employee has exhausted all the accrued paid leave and compensatory time to which the …

Sec. 157.081. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Family leave pool" means a county employee family leave pool created under a program. (2) "Pool administrator" means the individual responsible for administering a family leave pool. (3) "Program" means a county employee family …

Sec. 157.082. ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNTY EMPLOYEE FAMILY LEAVE POOL PROGRAM. (a) The commissioners court of a county by order may establish a program to allow an employee of the county to voluntarily transfer sick or vacation leave time earned by the employee to a county employee fa…

Sec. 157.083. CONTRIBUTION TO FAMILY LEAVE POOL. (a) A county employee may contribute to the family leave pool of the county that employs the employee one or more days of the employee's accrued sick or vacation leave. (b) The pool administrator for a county shall credit the count…

Sec. 157.084. USE OF TIME IN POOL. (a) A county employee is eligible to use time contributed to the family leave pool of the county that employs the employee if the employee has exhausted the employee's eligible compensatory, discretionary, sick, and vacation leave because of: (1…

Sec. 157.085. WITHDRAWAL OF TIME FROM POOL. (a) A county employee may apply to the pool administrator for the county that employs the employee for permission to withdraw time from the county's family leave pool. (b) A county employee who applies to withdraw time under this sectio…

Sec. 157.086. LIMITATION ON WITHDRAWALS. (a) A county employee may not withdraw time from the family leave pool of the county that employs the employee in an amount that exceeds the lesser of: (1) one-third of the total time in the pool; or (2) 90 days. (b) Subject to Subsection …

Sec. 157.087. EQUAL TREATMENT. A county employee absent while using time withdrawn from the family leave pool of the county that employs the employee may use the time as sick leave earned by the employee. The employee shall be treated for all purposes as if the employee is absent…

Sec. 157.088. NO ENTITLEMENT TO ESTATE. The estate of a deceased county employee is not entitled to payment for unused time withdrawn by the employee from the family leave pool of the county that employs the employee. Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 167 (H.B. 334), Sec. …

Sec. 157.101. GROUP HEALTH AND RELATED BENEFITS. (a) A commissioners court by rule, including through an intergovernmental risk pool organized under Chapter 172, may provide for group health and related benefits, including medical care, surgical care, hospitalization, and pharmac…

Sec. 157.102. GROUP HEALTH AND RELATED BENEFITS FUND. (a) The commissioners court of a county that adopts rules under Section 157.101 may require persons participating in the group health and related benefits plan to contribute toward the payment of the plan. The commissioners co…

Sec. 157.103. SUBROGATION. (a) A county that has paid group health and related benefits for a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, deputy constable, or other county or precinct law enforcement official is subrogated to the law enforcement official's right of recovery for personal …

Sec. 157.104. PAYMENTS FOR CERTAIN HEALTH COVERAGE. A county may purchase and pay premiums for coverages as described by Section 157.006. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 630, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Sec. 157.105. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. (a) A county that chooses to provide medical or related benefits may operate under this subchapter or Subchapter A. (b) A county operating under this subchapter that previously created a fund under Section 157.003 may continue the fund o…

Sec. 157.106. INSURANCE POOL OR INSURANCE COMPANY NOT CREATED. If a county provides for group health and related benefits, including medical care, surgical care, hospitalization, and pharmaceutical, life, accident, disability, long-term care, vision, dental, mental health, and su…

Sec. 157.901. LEGAL DEFENSE OF EMPLOYEES. (a) A county official or employee sued by any entity, other than the county with which the official or employee serves, for an action arising from the performance of public duty is entitled to be represented by the district attorney of th…

Sec. 157.9015. REPRESENTATION PERMITTED WITHOUT CONFLICT OF INTEREST. (a) It is not a conflict of interest for a district or county attorney under Section 157.901 to defend a county or a county official or employee sued by another county official or employee and also to advise or…

Sec. 157.902. PERSONNEL RULES APPLYING TO JUVENILE AND PROBATION OFFICERS, COURT REPORTERS, AND COUNTY AUDITOR'S OFFICE IN COUNTIES OF 500,000 OR MORE. (a) This section applies only to counties with a population of 500,000 or more. (b) The district judges in the county may, by a …

Sec. 157.903. AUTHORITY TO INDEMNIFY ELECTED AND APPOINTED COUNTY OFFICERS. The commissioners court of a county by order may provide for the indemnification of an elected or appointed county officer against personal liability for the loss of county funds, or loss of or damage to …

Sec. 157.9031. AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN COVERAGE. A self-insuring county or the intergovernmental pool operating under Chapter 119, under policies concerning the provision of coverages adopted by the county's commissioners court or the pool's governing body,…

Sec. 157.904. PERSONNEL RECORDS OF CERTAIN SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTS. (a) This section applies only to a sheriff's department in a county with a population of 3.3 million or more. (b) In this section, "employee record" means any letter, memorandum, or document maintained by the depar…

Sec. 157.906. PAYMENT FOR APPEARANCES OF PEACE OFFICERS EMPLOYED BY COUNTY IN COURT OR ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS. (a) A county shall pay a peace officer employed by the county for an appearance as a witness in a criminal suit, a civil suit, or an administrative proceeding in whi…