1-1  By:  Brady (Senate Sponsor - West)                    H.B. No. 2036
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 17, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 26, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 26, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to a payroll deduction by a county employee for a
   1-10  charitable purpose.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 155.001, Local Government Code, is
   1-13  amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 155.001.  DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED IN COUNTIES WITH 20,000
   1-15  OR MORE INHABITANTS; PURPOSES.  (a)  In a county with 20,000 or
   1-16  more inhabitants, the commissioners court, on the request of a
   1-17  county employee, may authorize a payroll deduction to be made from
   1-18  the employee's wages or salary for:
   1-19              (1)  payment to a credit union;
   1-20              (2)  payment of membership dues in a labor union or a
   1-21  bona fide employees association; <or>
   1-22              (3)  payment of fees for parking in a county-owned
   1-23  facility; or
   1-24              (4)  payment to a charitable organization.
   1-25        (b)  In this section, "charitable organization" has the
   1-26  meaning assigned by Section 1, Article 6813h, Revised Statutes.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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