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Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 37	PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 6	TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CHAPTER 151	GENERAL PROVISIONS
RULE §151.52	Sick Leave Pool

(a) Definitions. Sick Leave Pool Administrator is the director for the Human Resources Division or designee.

(b) Procedures.

(1) All contributions to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) sick leave pool are voluntary. Employees who contribute accrued sick leave hours to the TDCJ sick leave pool may not designate the contributed hours for use by a specific employee. An employee who contributes accrued sick leave hours to the sick leave pool may not withdraw the contributed hours of sick leave. There is no limitation for frequency of donations.

(2) An employee may not withdraw time from the sick leave pool except in the case of catastrophic illness or injury of the employee or the employee's immediate family. The pool administrator shall determine the amount of time that an employee may withdraw from the sick leave pool. An employee absent on time withdrawn from the sick leave pool shall be treated for all purposes as if the employee were absent on earned sick leave.

Source Note: The provisions of this §151.52 adopted to be effective March 28, 2002, 27 TexReg 2242; amended to be effective April 19, 2007, 32 TexReg 2141; amended to be effective July 8, 2012, 37 TexReg 4949

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