Journal of the Senate, Regular Session of the Seventy-Eighth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 7
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(c) The committee may delegate any of its responsibilities to the committee chair,
or to the secretary of the senate or another appropriate senate officer, to be performed
under the general supervision of the committee.
(d) Policies adopted by the administration committee must be consistent with the
provisions of this resolution. To the extent of a conflict between a policy and this
resolution, this resolution prevails.
(e) Policies adopted by the administration committee are subject to the will of
the senate, and a majority of the senate may reject or modify any policy adopted by
the committee.
SECTION 6. EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONNEL POLICIES. (a) The
administration committee may adopt and enforce personnel and employment policies
governing senate employees.
(b) The administration committee may not adopt a policy that limits the salary of
an employee of the lieutenant governor, a senator, or a senate committee, except that
the administration committee may require approval by that committee of any senate
committee employee salary that is proposed to exceed $5,000 a month.
SECTION 7. MEMBER'S EMPLOYEE LEAVE POLICY. (a) An employee of
a senator accrues vacation leave, compensatory leave, or sick leave in accordance with
policies adopted by the senator consistent with the requirements of this section.
(b) An employee may accrue vacation leave, compensatory leave, or sick leave
only if the employee files a monthly time record with the senate personnel office.
Time records are due not later than the 10th day of the following month.
(c) Compensatory time must be used not later than the last day of the 12th
month following the month in which the time was accrued.
(d) An employee is not entitled to compensation for accrued but unused
compensatory time.
SECTION 8. OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT. An employee of the senate may not
be employed by and receive compensation from any other person during the term of
senate employment without the permission of the employee's senate employer.
SECTION 9. WORK HOURS. An employee shall report to work at the time,
and work for the number of hours, set by the employee's senate employer.
SECTION 10. LIMIT ON MONTHLY STAFF SALARY AND TRAVEL
EXPENSES. (a) The total amount of staff salaries and intrastate staff travel expenses
for each senator may not exceed $31,000 per month for chairs and $34,000 per month
for non-chairs.
(b) Any unexpended portion of this monthly amount may be carried forward
from one month to the next and expended until the end of the fiscal year.
SECTION 11. SENATORS' EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT AND PER
DIEM. The secretary of the senate shall provide for the reimbursement of the
expenses of each senator and the payment of each senator's per diem in accordance
with law, this resolution, and the rules of the Texas Ethics Commission.
SECTION 12. OTHER SENATE EXPENSES. (a) The lieutenant governor, the
secretary of the senate, and each senator may incur expenses for carrying out official
duties, including expenses for items such as subscriptions, stationery, postage, and
telecommunications.Tuesday, January 14, 2003
SENATE JOURNAL
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