DEFINITIONS

In this chapter: (1) "Full-time state employee" means a person employed by a state agency who, if not participating in a voluntary work reduction program under Section 658.003, is required to work for the agency not less than 40 hours a week. (2) "State agency" means: (A) a board, commission, department, institution, office, or other agency in the executive branch of state government that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state, including an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, other than a public junior college; or (B) the Supreme Court of Texas, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a court of appeals, or other agency in the judicial branch. (3) "Telework" means a work arrangement that allows an employee of a state agency to conduct on a regular basis all or some agency business at a place other than the employee's regular or assigned temporary place of employment during all or a portion of the employee's established work hours.