By Naishtat H.B. No. 1943
75R6976 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorized deductions from compensation of county
1-3 employees.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 155.001, Local Government Code, as
1-6 amended by Chapters 433 and 817, Acts of the 74th Legislature,
1-7 Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 155.001. DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED IN COUNTIES; PURPOSES.
1-9 (a) The commissioners court, on the request of a county employee,
1-10 may authorize a payroll deduction to be made from the employee's
1-11 wages or salary for payment to a credit union.
1-12 (b) In a county with a population of 20,000 or more, the
1-13 commissioners court, on the request of a county employee, may
1-14 authorize a payroll deduction to be made from the employee's wages
1-15 or salary for:
1-16 (1) payment of membership dues in a labor union or a
1-17 bona fide employees association; [or]
1-18 (2) payment of fees for parking in a county-owned or
1-19 county-leased facility; or
1-20 (3) [(4)] payment to a charitable organization.
1-21 (c) [(b)] In this section, "charitable organization" has the
1-22 meaning assigned by Section 659.131, Government Code [1, Article
1-23 6813h, Revised Statutes].
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.