By Madla                                              S.B. No. 1479
       74R5399 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to deductions from the compensation of county employees
    1-3  for payment to a credit union.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 155.001, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 155.001.  DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED IN COUNTIES <WITH 20,000
    1-8  OR MORE INHABITANTS>; PURPOSES.  (a)  The commissioners court, on
    1-9  the request of a county employee, may authorize a payroll deduction
   1-10  to be made from the employee's wages or salary for payment to a
   1-11  credit union.
   1-12        (b)  In a county with a population of 20,000 or more
   1-13  <inhabitants>, the commissioners court, on the request of a county
   1-14  employee, may authorize a payroll deduction to be made from the
   1-15  employee's wages or salary for:
   1-16              (1)  <payment to a credit union;>
   1-17              <(2)>  payment of membership dues in a labor union or a
   1-18  bona fide employees association; or
   1-19              (2) <(3)>  payment of fees for parking in a
   1-20  county-owned facility.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The heading to Subchapter A, Chapter 155, Local
   1-22  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-23        SUBCHAPTER A.  AUTHORIZED DEDUCTIONS FOR <IN> COUNTIES <WITH
   1-24  20,000 OR MORE INHABITANTS>
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.