By Bailey, Serna                                       H.B. No. 288
       74R1293 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the right of junior college district employees
    1-3  voluntarily to designate a portion of their earned income to
    1-4  certain organizations.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 130.008 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 130.008.  VOLUNTARY SALARY DEDUCTIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL
    1-9  ORGANIZATIONS.  (a)  An employee of a junior college district, on a
   1-10  form prescribed by the junior college district, may authorize a
   1-11  deduction each pay period from the employee's salary or wage
   1-12  payment for a contribution to a professional organization.  The
   1-13  authorization must direct the chief financial officer of the junior
   1-14  college district to transfer the withheld funds to the organization
   1-15  designated by the employee.
   1-16        (b)  The payroll deduction must be accomplished in a manner
   1-17  prescribed by the chief financial officer of the junior college
   1-18  district.
   1-19        (c)  The employee may change or revoke the authorization by
   1-20  delivering written notice of the change or revocation, on a form
   1-21  prescribed by the junior college district, to the chief financial
   1-22  officer of the junior college district.  The written notice takes
   1-23  effect on the later of the effective date specified in the notice
   1-24  or the date the chief financial officer receives the notice.   The
    2-1  notice must be delivered in a manner prescribed by the chief
    2-2  financial officer.
    2-3        (d)  A junior college district may charge an employee who
    2-4  authorizes a voluntary salary deduction under this section an
    2-5  administrative fee not to exceed the lesser of:
    2-6              (1)  the actual administrative cost of making the
    2-7  deduction; or
    2-8              (2)  the administrative fee the district charges for
    2-9  other salary deductions.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
   2-15                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   2-16        Amend H.B. 288 as follows:
   2-17        (1)  On page 1, on line 8, insert "ACADEMIC" before
   2-18  "PROFESSIONAL."
   2-19        (2)  On page 1, on line 12, insert "an academic" before
   2-20  "professional."
   2-21                                                                Ogden