1-1 By: Bailey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 1484
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
1-3 May 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 28, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 28, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Bivins
1-20 Amend H.B. 1484 in section 1 by deleting the first full paragraph
1-21 and inserting the following:
1-22 Sec. 130.007. VOLUNTARY SALARY DEDUCTIONS FOR ACADEMIC
1-23 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. (a) An employee of a junior college
1-24 district, on a form prescribed by the junior college district, may
1-25 authorize a deducation each pay period or annually from the
1-26 employee's salary or wage payment for a contribution to an academic
1-27 professional organization. The authorization must direct the
1-28 financial officer of the junior college district to transfer the
1-29 withheld funds to the organization designated by the employee. For
1-30 purposes of this subsection an academic professional organization
1-31 is a non-profit corporation that is:
1-32 (1) exempt from taxation under Section 501(a) of the
1-33 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as an organization described in
1-34 Section 501(c)(3) of that code and to which contributions are
1-35 deductible for income tax purposes under Section 170 of that code;
1-36 and
1-37 (2) does not use any of its funds for the purpose of
1-38 conducting litigation or for engaging in lobbying activities that
1-39 would require registration of the organization or any of its
1-40 officers, employees or agents under Chapter 305, Government Code.
1-41 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-42 AN ACT
1-43 relating to the right of junior college district employees
1-44 voluntarily to designate a portion of their earned income to
1-45 certain organizations.
1-46 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-47 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
1-48 amended by adding Section 130.007 to read as follows:
1-49 Sec. 130.007. VOLUNTARY SALARY DEDUCTIONS FOR ACADEMIC
1-50 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. (a) An employee of a junior college
1-51 district, on a form prescribed by the junior college district, may
1-52 authorize a deduction each pay period or annually from the
1-53 employee's salary or wage payment for a contribution to an academic
1-54 professional organization. The authorization must direct the
1-55 financial officer of the junior college district to transfer the
1-56 withheld funds to the organization designated by the employee.
1-57 (b) The payroll deduction must be accomplished in a manner
1-58 prescribed by the financial officer of the junior college district.
1-59 (c) The employee may change or revoke the authorization by
1-60 delivering written notice of the change or revocation, on a form
1-61 prescribed by the junior college district, to the financial officer
1-62 of the junior college district. The written notice takes effect on
1-63 the later of the effective date specified in the notice or the date
1-64 the financial officer receives the notice. The notice must be
1-65 delivered in a manner prescribed by the financial officer.
1-66 (d) A junior college district may charge an employee who
1-67 authorizes a voluntary salary deduction under this section an
1-68 administrative fee not to exceed the lesser of:
2-1 (1) the actual administrative cost of making the
2-2 deduction; or
2-3 (2) the administrative fee the district charges for
2-4 other salary deductions.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-12 * * * * *
2-13 Austin,
2-14 Texas
2-15 May 28, 1993
2-16 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-17 President of the Senate
2-18 Sir:
2-19 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No.
2-20 1484, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-21 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-22 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-23 Ratliff,
2-24 Chairman
2-25 * * * * *
2-26 WITNESSES
2-27 FOR AGAINST ON
2-28 ___________________________________________________________________
2-29 Name: Dr. Charles Zucker x
2-30 Representing: Tx Faulty Assn.
2-31 City: Austin
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2-33 Name: Walter Hinojosa x
2-34 Representing: Tx Federation of Teachers
2-35 City: Austin
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2-37 Name: Ted Roberts x
2-38 Representing: Tx Assn. of Business
2-39 City: Austin
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2-41 Name: Charles Burnside x
2-42 Representing: Tx Jr. College Teachers
2-43 City: Austin
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