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.