By Seaman, Berlanga, Luna                             H.B. No. 2801

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain payroll deductions for employees of

 1-3     institutions of higher education.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 51.941 as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 51.941.  PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS FOR SUPPORT OF INSTITUTIONS

 1-8     OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS.  An employee of

 1-9     an institution of higher education may authorize a deduction each

1-10     pay period from the employee's salary or wage payment for a

1-11     charitable contribution to an institution of higher education as

1-12     defined by Section 61.003 or to a nonprofit organization whose

1-13     purpose is to support the programs of an institution of higher

1-14     education.  Any such nonprofit organization must have an agreement

1-15     with the institution as required by Section 2255.001, Government

1-16     Code.

1-17           SECTION 2.   The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.