By Bailey                                        H.B. No. 586

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to permitting collective bargaining between the state or

 1-3     a political subdivision of the state and certain labor

 1-4     organizations representing public employees.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 617.002, Government Code, is amended to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 617.002.  COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY CERTAIN LABOR

 1-9     ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED.  (a)  An

1-10     official of the state or of a political subdivision of the state

1-11     may not enter into a collective bargaining contract with a labor

1-12     organization that advocates the right of public employees to strike

1-13     regarding disputes involving wages, hours, or conditions of

1-14     employment of public employees.

1-15           (b)  A contract entered into in violation of Subsection (a)

1-16     is void.

1-17           (c)  An official of the state or of a political subdivision

1-18     of the state may not recognize as the bargaining agent for a group

1-19     of public employees a labor organization that advocates the right

1-20     of public  employees to strike regarding disputes involving wages,

1-21     hours, or conditions of employment of [as the bargaining agent for

1-22     a group of] public employees.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.