Sec. 659.303. TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION EMPLOYEES

(a) The commission may include hazardous duty pay in the compensation paid to an individual for services rendered during a month if the individual:

(1) has routine direct contact with youth:

(A) placed in a residential facility of the commission; or

(B) released under the commission's supervision; and

(2) has completed at least 12 months of lifetime service credit not later than the last day of the preceding month.

(b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), an individual who is having routine direct contact with youth on any portion of the first workday of a month is considered to have routine direct contact with youth for the entire month.

(c) The commission's authority under Subsection (a) is subject to any conditions or limitations in the General Appropriations Act.

(d) The commission may not pay hazardous duty pay:

(1) from funds authorized for payment of an across-the-board employee salary increase; or

(2) to an employee who works at the commission's central office.

(e) In this section, "commission" means the Texas Youth Commission.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 37, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.