Title LG, Local Government Code

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…

Sec. 158.001. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Commission" means a county civil service commission. (2) "Employee" means a person who obtains a position by appointment and who is not authorized by statute to perform governmental functions involving an exercise of discretion …

Sec. 158.002. ELIGIBLE COUNTIES. A county with a population of 190,000 or more may, in accordance with this subchapter, create a county civil service system to include all the employees of the county who are not exempted from the system by the express terms or judicial interpreta…

Sec. 158.0025. CREATION OF SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM IN CERTAIN COUNTIES NOT COVERED BY SUBCHAPTER B. (a) This section applies only to a county with a population of 190,000 or more, other than: (1) a county that has created a civil service system under this subcha…

Sec. 158.003. CREATION BY ORDER. (a) A county civil service system may be created by an order adopted by a majority of the members of the commissioners court of the county. (b) A copy of an order adopted under this section shall be placed in the minutes of the court's proceedings…

Sec. 158.004. CREATION BY ELECTION. (a) A county civil service system may be created by approval of the system by a majority of the qualified voters of the county voting at an election called for that purpose. (b) The commissioners court by order may call an election on the quest…

Sec. 158.005. BALLOTS AND VOTING AT ELECTION TO CREATE SYSTEM. (a) Each qualified voter of the county is entitled to vote at the election. (b) The commissioners court shall order the ballot at the election to be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "Creat…

Sec. 158.006. RESULT OF ELECTION TO CREATE SYSTEM. (a) The presiding judge of each voting place shall supervise the counting of votes cast at the election. (b) Within 24 hours after the election, each judge shall certify to the commissioners court the results of the election at t…

Sec. 158.0065. PETITION TO CREATE BY ORDER OR ELECTION. (a) This section applies only in a county with a population of 290,000 or more that would not be eligible to expand or dissolve the system under Section 158.007. (b) The commissioners court of a county that receives a petiti…

Sec. 158.007. EXPANDED COVERAGE OR DISSOLUTION OF SYSTEM IN POPULOUS COUNTIES. (a) In a county that has a population of more than 1.3 million and a civil service system created under this subchapter, the qualified voters of the county, voting at an election called for that purpos…

Sec. 158.008. APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION. (a) If a civil service system is created under this subchapter, the commissioners court shall appoint three persons to serve as the members of the civil service commission that administers the system. The commissioners court shall designat…

Sec. 158.009. POWERS OF THE COMMISSION. (a) Except as provided by Section 158.010, the commission shall adopt, publish, and enforce rules regarding: (1) the definition of a county employee; (2) selection and classification of county employees; (3) competitive examinations; (4) pr…

Sec. 158.0095. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE SUBPOENAS AND ADMINISTER OATHS. (a) In a proceeding before the commission under this subchapter, the chairman of the commission shall, on request of a person described by Subsection (b): (1) administer oaths; and (2) issue subpoenas and subpoenas…

Sec. 158.010. EMPLOYMENT BY DEPARTMENTS. (a) The head of each department included in the coverage of a county civil service system may assume responsibility for selecting all persons who are to be employees of that department. (b) A person employed by a department whose head has …

Sec. 158.011. COMPENSATION AND STAFF. The members of the commission serve without compensation, but the commissioners court shall reimburse each member for all necessary expenses incurred in performing the member's duties. The commissioners court shall provide the commission with…

Sec. 158.012. APPEALS. (a) A county employee who, on a final decision by the commission, is demoted, suspended, or removed from the employee's position may appeal the decision by filing a petition in a district court in the county within 30 days after the date of the decision. (b…

Sec. 158.0121. REVIEW UNDER SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE RULE. In an appeal under Section 158.012, the district court may not substitute its judgment for the judgment of the commission on the weight of the evidence on questions committed to the commission's discretion but: (1) may affirm…

Sec. 158.0122. PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW UNDER SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE RULE. (a) After service of the petition on the commission and within the time permitted for filing an answer or within additional time allowed by the court, the commission shall send to the reviewing court the origin…

Sec. 158.0123. COST OF PREPARING COMMISSION RECORD. (a) The commission may require a party who appeals a final decision under Section 158.012 to pay one-half of the cost of preparation of the original or a certified copy of the record of the commission proceeding that is required…

Sec. 158.013. EXEMPTIONS. (a) A person who on August 30, 1971, was an employee of an eligible county under this subchapter may not be required to take a competitive examination or perform any other act to maintain the position held on that date. (b) This subchapter does not apply…

Sec. 158.014. DISSOLUTION OF SYSTEM. (a) If, after a civil service system under this subchapter has been in effect for at least one year, 10 percent of the qualified voters of the county petition the commissioners court to dissolve the system, the commissioners court shall call a…

Sec. 158.015. LIMITATION ON ELECTIONS. The commissioners court may not call an election under Section 158.004 or 158.014 for at least two years after the date of any previous election under either of those sections. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. SUBCH…