In this chapter:

1. (1) "Full-time state employee" means a person employed by a state agency who, if not participating in a voluntary work reduction program under Section 658.003, is required to work for the agency not less than 40 hours a week.

2. (2) "State agency" means:

   1. (A) a board, commission, department, institution, office, or other agency in the executive branch of state government that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state, including an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, other than a public junior college; or
   2. (B) the Supreme Court of Texas, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a court of appeals, or other agency in the judicial branch.
3. (3) "Telework" means a work arrangement that allows an employee of a state agency to conduct on a regular basis all or some agency business at a place other than the employee's regular or assigned temporary place of employment during all or a portion of the employee's established work hours.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 279, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;

Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 118, Sec. 2.11, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1118 (H.B. 5196), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.