1. (a) A state employee paid a full-time salary shall work not less than 40 hours a week.
2. (b) The chief administrator of a state agency that must maintain certain services 24 hours a day may require essential employees who perform those services to be on duty for a workweek that exceeds 40 hours in necessary or emergency situations.
3. (c) This section does not apply to a houseparent who is employed by and lives at a Texas Youth Commission facility.

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