By Naishtat                                     H.B. No. 1943

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                                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.