Sec. 666.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:

(1) "Compensation" includes:

(A) base salary or wages;

(B) longevity or hazardous duty pay;

(C) benefit replacement pay;

(D) a payment for the balance of vacation and sick leave under Subchapter B, Chapter 661;

(E) a payment for the accrued balance of vacation time under Subchapter C, Chapter 661; and

(F) an emolument provided in lieu of base salary or wages.

(2) "Indebtedness" means the amount of compensation paid to a state employee that exceeds the amount the employee is eligible to receive under law because at the time the compensation was paid:

(A) the employee was ineligible to receive the entire amount paid; or

(B) the employee's eligibility to receive the entire amount paid was conditioned on:

(i) the occurrence of an event that did not occur; or

(ii) the employee's fulfillment of a promise that the employee did not fulfill.

(3) "State agency" means a board, commission, council, committee, department, office, agency, or other governmental entity in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government. The term includes:

(A) the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation; and

(B) an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, other than a public junior or community college.

(4) "State employee" means an officer or employee of a state agency.

(5) "Successor" means:

(A) the estate of a deceased state employee;

(B) the surviving spouse of a deceased state employee; or

(C) the distributees of the estate of a deceased state employee.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1467, Sec. 1.27, eff. Jan. 1, 2000. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.