By Bailey                                       H.B. No. 1014

      75R4891 CAG-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the right of junior college district employees to

 1-3     voluntarily designate a portion of their earned income to certain

 1-4     organizations.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 130.010 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 130.010.  VOLUNTARY SALARY DEDUCTIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL

 1-9     ORGANIZATIONS.  (a)  An employee of a junior college district, on a

1-10     form prescribed by the junior college district, may authorize a

1-11     payroll deduction to be made from the employee's salary or wage

1-12     payment for a contribution to a professional organization.  The

1-13     authorization must:

1-14                 (1)  state the amount to be deducted; and

1-15                 (2)  direct the chief financial officer of the junior

1-16     college district to transfer the withheld funds to the organization

1-17     designated by the employee.

1-18           (b)  The payroll deduction must be accomplished in a manner

1-19     prescribed by the chief financial officer of the junior college

1-20     district.

1-21           (c)  The employee may change or revoke the authorization by

1-22     delivering written notice of the change or revocation, on a form

1-23     prescribed by the junior college district, to the chief financial

1-24     officer of the junior college district.  The written notice takes

 2-1     effect on the later of the effective date specified in the notice

 2-2     or the date the chief financial officer receives the notice.  The

 2-3     notice must be delivered in a manner prescribed by the chief

 2-4     financial officer.

 2-5           (d)  A junior college district may charge an employee who

 2-6     authorizes a voluntary salary deduction under this section an

 2-7     administrative fee not to exceed the lesser of:

 2-8                 (1)  the actual administrative cost for making the

 2-9     deduction; or

2-10                 (2)  the administrative fee the district charges for

2-11     other salary deductions.

2-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.