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         By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 3112

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3112:

         By Rangel                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3112

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authorization of payroll deductions by employees of

 1-3     institutions of higher education for parking fees or parking

 1-4     permits.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 659, Government Code, is amended by

 1-7     adding Subchapter J to read as follows:

 1-8        SUBCHAPTER J.  PAYROLL DEDUCTION OF PARKING FEES AND PERMITS

 1-9                     AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

1-10           Sec. 659.201.  DEFINITION.  In this subchapter, "institution

1-11     of higher education"  has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003,

1-12     Education Code.

1-13           Sec. 659.202.  DEDUCTION AUTHORIZED.  An employee of an

1-14     institution of higher education may authorize in writing a

1-15     deduction each pay period from the employee's salary or wage

1-16     payment for the payment of parking fees charged by the institution

1-17     of higher education or for the purchase of a parking permit from an

1-18     institution of higher education.  An authorization for a deduction

1-19     under this subchapter by the employee is voluntary.

1-20           Sec. 659.203.  FORM AND MANNER.  A deduction under this

1-21     subchapter must be made in a form and manner prescribed by the

1-22     appropriate financial officer of the institution of higher

1-23     education.

1-24           Sec. 659.204.  CHANGE; DURATION.  (a)  An employee

 2-1     authorizing a deduction under this subchapter may change or revoke

 2-2     the authorization by delivering written notice of the change or

 2-3     revocation to the financial officer of the institution of higher

 2-4     education.

 2-5           (b)  An authorization under this subchapter is effective

 2-6     until the financial officer receives a notice under Subsection (a)

 2-7     changing or revoking the authorization.

 2-8           (c)  The notice given under Subsection (a) must be in the

 2-9     form and manner prescribed by the appropriate financial officer of

2-10     the institution of higher education.

2-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.