By: Naishtat H.B. No. 1786
73R4820 RWS-D
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.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.