By Brady                                              H.B. No. 2036
       74R6059 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a payroll deduction by a county employee for a
    1-3  charitable purpose.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 155.001, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 155.001.  DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED IN COUNTIES WITH 20,000
    1-8  OR MORE INHABITANTS; PURPOSES.  (a)  In a county with 20,000 or
    1-9  more inhabitants, the commissioners court, on the request of a
   1-10  county employee, may authorize a payroll deduction to be made from
   1-11  the employee's wages or salary for:
   1-12              (1)  payment to a credit union;
   1-13              (2)  payment of membership dues in a labor union or a
   1-14  bona fide employees association; <or>
   1-15              (3)  payment of fees for parking in a county-owned
   1-16  facility; or
   1-17              (4)  payment to a charitable organization.
   1-18        (b)  In this section, "charitable organization" has the
   1-19  meaning assigned by Section 1, Article 6813h, Revised Statutes.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.