Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
GOVERNMENT CODE |
Title 6. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES |
Subtitle B. STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES |
Chapter 664. STATE EMPLOYEES HEALTH FITNESS AND EDUCATION |
Subchapter A. STATE EMPLOYEES HEALTH FITNESS AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS |
Sec. 664.002. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE
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Effective state administration is materially enhanced by programs designed to encourage and create a condition of health fitness in state administrators and employees and public money spent for these programs serves important public purposes, including:
(1) an understanding and diminution of the risk factors associated with society's most debilitating diseases;
(2) the development of greater work productivity and capacity;
(3) a reduction in absenteeism;
(4) a reduction of health insurance costs; and
(5) an increase in the general level of fitness.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.