By Yarbrough                                          H.B. No. 2112
       74R3366 DRH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of binding arbitration in labor disputes
    1-3  involving certain metropolitan transit authorities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 12, Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        (g)  The board of an authority in which the principal city
   1-10  has a population of more than 1,200,000 shall submit labor issues
   1-11  that are not resolved through collective bargaining to arbitration.
   1-12  An award made by an arbitrator under this subsection is binding on
   1-13  all parties.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-15  applies only to an arbitration award made on or after that date.
   1-16  An arbitration award made before the effective date of this Act is
   1-17  covered by the law in effect at the time the award was made, and
   1-18  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.