1-1  By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 586
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1995; February 16, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  March 29, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 12,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 29, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to payroll deductions for state employees for
    1-9  contributions to charitable organizations.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 2, Article 6813h, Revised
   1-12  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  An authorization must <may> designate an eligible
   1-14  charitable organization to receive the deductions.  If an
   1-15  authorization does not designate an eligible charitable
   1-16  organization, the comptroller may not deduct funds from the
   1-17  employee's salary or wage payment <employee's deductions shall be
   1-18  distributed to each participating federation or fund and eligible
   1-19  local charitable organization in the proportion that the deductions
   1-20  designated for that charitable organization bear to the total of
   1-21  designated deductions in the local state employee charitable
   1-22  campaign>.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-24  applies only to a payroll deduction made on or after that date.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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