1-1     By:  Seaman (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)              H.B. No. 368
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to payroll deductions for employees of institutions of
 1-9     higher education.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 51.946 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 51.946.  PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS FOR CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS.
1-14     (a)  An employee of an institution of higher education may
1-15     authorize a deduction each pay period from the employee's salary or
1-16     wage payment for:
1-17                 (1)  a contribution to an institution of higher
1-18     education; or
1-19                 (2)  a charitable contribution to a nonprofit
1-20     organization the purpose of which is to support the programs of an
1-21     institution of higher education.
1-22           (b)  To be eligible to receive charitable contributions under
1-23     this section, a nonprofit organization must comply with the rules
1-24     adopted under Section 2255.001, Government Code, by the institution
1-25     of higher education the organization supports.
1-26           (c)  An institution of higher education shall establish
1-27     procedures to enable an employee of the institution to authorize a
1-28     deduction under this section.
1-29           (d)  In this section, "institution of higher education" has
1-30     the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
1-31           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-32           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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