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.