The purpose of the family leave pool program is to make leave available to an eligible employee who has exhausted all eligible leave for the purposes of bonding with and caring for the employee's children or a person over whom the employee has guardianship or caring for an immediate family member's or the employee's serious illness. Authority for the creation of the family leave pool program is contained in Government Code, Chapter 661, Subchapter A-1, State Employee Family Leave Pool.

Source Note: The provisions of this §4.70 adopted to be effective August 1, 2022, 47 TexReg 4558