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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