DEPARTMENT: Office of the City Clerk
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Leticia M. Vacek, City Clerk
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Certification of the result of the Petition submitted to initiate an Earned Paid Sick Time Ordinance.
SUMMARY:
On Thursday, May 24, 2018, a Petition was submitted to the Office of the City Clerk to initiate an Ordinance:
"Amending Chapter 15, Health, of the City Code of San Antonio, Texas to create a new Article XI entitled "Earned Paid Sick Time" to require that certain employees in San Antonio be provided earned paid sick time for use if an employee needs to be absent from work because the employee or the employee's family member experiences illness, injury, stalking, domestic abuse, sexual assault, or otherwise requires medical or health care, including preventative care and mental health care, establishing notice, posting, and recordkeeping requirements, establishing enforcement authority, establishing civil penalties for violations and setting the effective date."
Pursuant to Section 34 of the City Charter, "Any initiated ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified electors of the city equal in number to ten percent of the electors qualified to vote at the time of the last regular municipal election." In the May, 2017 General Election there were a total of 699,496 Active Voters. Therefore, a total of 69,960 petition signatures from qualified voters of the City of San Antonio were required to be submitted.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Upon submission of the petition pages, the Office of the City Clerk began reviewing the Petition Signatures in accordance with Chapter 277.002 of Texas Election Code (TEC):
(a) For a petition signature to be valid, a petition must:
1) contain in addition to the signature:
A) the signer's printed name;
B) the signer's:
i) date of birth; or
ii) voter registration number and, if the territory from which signatures must be obtained is situated in more than on...
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