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By: Gallegos S.B. No. 396
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to meet and confer agreements for fire fighters covered by
1-2 Subchapter H, Chapter 143, Local Government Code.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 143.207(c) Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) An agreement under this Subchapter may not diminish or
1-7 qualify any right, benefit, or privilege of an employee under this
1-8 Chapter or other law unless approved by a [majority vote by] secret
1-9 ballot election of the members of the firefighter's association
1-10 recognized as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent. The
1-11 agreement is approved if a majority of the votes actually received
1-12 in the election are in favor of adoption of the agreement.
1-13 SECTION 2. This act takes effect June 3, 1997.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
1-20 terms, and it is so enacted.