By Naishtat H.B. No. 1786
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1786:
By Naishtat C.S.H.B. No. 1786
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to payroll deductions in certain municipalities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 141.008(a), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The governing body of a municipality with a population
1-7 of more than 10,000 shall <may> deduct from a municipal employee's
1-8 monthly salary or wages an amount requested in writing by the
1-9 employee in payment of membership dues to a bona fide employees'
1-10 association named by the employee only if the municipality permits
1-11 deductions for other purposes other than deductions for charity or
1-12 deductions for the direct and personal benefit of the employee or
1-13 his dependents such as insurance.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.