Relating to the establishment of a county employee family leave pool program.
HB 334 establishes a program allowing county employees to voluntarily contribute unused sick or vacation leave to a shared family leave pool. Employees can access the pool after exhausting their own leave for qualifying events like childbirth, adoption, foster placement, or serious illness in an immediate family member. The county judge or an appointed administrator manages the pool, and contributions reduce the donor’s leave balance. Counties must create the program through a commissioners court order, making it available to all county employees.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Feb 28, 2025
Signed May 26, 2025
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May 26, 2025
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The bill text was reformatted from a legislative markup format to a clean enrolled version, with minor text corrections and additions. The substantive policy content regarding the county employee family leave pool program remains unchanged, including eligibility criteria, withdrawal rules, and effective dates.
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No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the changes are primarily formatting and text cleanup.
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Removed markup artifacts like line numbers, page headers, and amendment indicators from the text.
Added a header line identifying the bill as the enrolled version with bill number 89(R) HB 334.
Corrected spacing and formatting inconsistencies in section headers and definitions.
Added certification signatures and voting records at the end of the enrolled bill.
Floor votes · House May 1, 2025
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
52
Key actions
17
Committee
12
May 26, 2025
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
May 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed in the Senate
upper
May 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed in the House
lower
May 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate passage reported
lower
May 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed
upper
May 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee report printed and distributed
upper
May 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably w/o amendments
upper
May 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Vote taken in committee
upper
May 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Testimony taken in committee
upper
May 5, 2025
Committee
Referred to Local Government
upper
May 5, 2025
Introduced
Read first time
upper
May 5, 2025
Introduced
Received from the House
upper
May 2, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed
lower
May 1, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed to engrossment
lower
Apr 25, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee report sent to Calendars
lower
Apr 23, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee report distributed
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably as substituted
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Recalled from subcommittee
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Left pending in subcommittee
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
lower
Feb 28, 2025
Committee
Referred to s/c on County & Regional Government by Speaker
lower
Feb 28, 2025
Introduced
Read first time
lower
6 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Cas Garcia Hernandez
DDemocratic
P
Claudia Ordaz
DDemocratic
P
CB
César Blanco
DDemocratic
P
Jared Patterson
RRepublican
P
Matt Shaheen
RRepublican
P
Terri Leo-Wilson
RRepublican
Co
Carol Alvarado
DDemocratic
Co
Mihaela Pleșa
DDemocratic
Co
Salman Bhojani
DDemocratic
Co
Trey Martinez Fischer
DDemocratic
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