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.