Title GV, Government Code

Sec. 659.301. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Full-time state employee" means a state employee who normally works at least 40 hours each week. (2) "Hazardous duty position" means a position in the service of this state that: (A) renders any individual holding that position …

Sec. 659.302. ENTITLEMENT TO RECEIVE HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY. (a) Hazardous duty pay is included in the compensation paid to an individual for services rendered during a month if the individual: (1) is a state employee for any portion of the first workday of the month; and (2) has com…

Sec. 659.303. TEXAS JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES. (a) The department may include hazardous duty pay in the compensation paid to an individual for services rendered during a month if the individual has: (1) routine direct contact with youth: (A) placed in a residential fa…

Sec. 659.304. INELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY. Hazardous duty pay may be paid only to an individual who is: (1) entitled to receive the pay under Section 659.302; or (2) eligible to receive the pay under Section 659.303. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 3…

Sec. 659.305. AMOUNT OF HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (h), the amount of a full-time state employee's hazardous duty pay for a particular month is $10 for each 12-month period of lifetime service credit accrued by the employee. (b) This subsect…

Sec. 659.306. RESPONSIBILITY FOR PAYING HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY. The state agency that employs an individual at the beginning of the first workday of a month must pay any hazardous duty pay that is included in the compensation paid to the individual for services rendered during that m…

Sec. 659.307. SERVICE CREDIT. (a) The amount of an individual's lifetime service credit equals the number of months the individual has served in a hazardous duty position during the individual's lifetime. (b) The amount of an individual's state service credit equals the sum of: (…

Sec. 659.308. ADMINISTRATION. The comptroller may establish procedures and adopt rules to administer this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 37, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.