Opinion No.

Honorable W. E. Snelson Chairman Senate Education Committee Texas State Senate State Capitol Building, 128-C Austin, Texas 78711

Re: Sick leave entitlement of state employees

Dear Senator Snelson:

You have requested our opinion regarding an employee terminated by the State Commission for the Blind on June 25, 1979, while the employee was drawing sick leave. In Attorney General Opinion MW-247 (1980), we said that this employee was not entitled to be paid a lump sum in compensation for that portion of his accrued sick leave which remained unused at the time of his discharge.

The pertinent…