By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 586
       74R3909 MJW-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to payroll deductions for state employees for
    1-3  contributions to charitable organizations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 2(c), Article 6813h, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  An authorization must <may> designate an eligible
    1-8  charitable organization to receive the deductions.  If an
    1-9  authorization does not designate an eligible charitable
   1-10  organization, the comptroller may not deduct funds from the
   1-11  employee's salary or wage payment <employee's deductions shall be
   1-12  distributed to each participating federation or fund and eligible
   1-13  local charitable organization in the proportion that the deductions
   1-14  designated for that charitable organization bear to the total of
   1-15  designated deductions in the local state employee charitable
   1-16  campaign>.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-18  applies only to a payroll deduction made on or after that date.
   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.