Sec. 613.002.  REEMPLOYMENT TO SAME POSITION FOLLOWING MILITARY SERVICE.  (a)  A public employee who leaves a state position or a position with a local governmental entity to enter active military service is entitled to be reemployed:
(1)  by the state or the local governmental entity;
(2)  in the same department, office, commission, or board of this state, a state institution, or local governmental entity in which the employee was employed at the time of the employee's induction or enlistment in, or order to, active military service;  and
(3)  in:
(A)  the same position held at the time of the induction, enlistment, or order;  or
(B)  a position of similar seniority, status, and pay.
(b)  To be entitled to reemployment under Subsection (a), the employee must be:
(1)  discharged, separated, or released from active military service under honorable conditions not later than the fifth anniversary of the date of induction, enlistment, or call to active military service;  and
(2)  physically and mentally qualified to perform the duties of that position.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.