By Tillery H.B. No. 1099
76R4829 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to collective bargaining by employees of local
1-3 governments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 617.002, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 617.002. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY STATE [PUBLIC]
1-8 EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED. (a) An official of the state [or of a
1-9 political subdivision of the state] may not enter into a collective
1-10 bargaining contract with a labor organization regarding wages,
1-11 hours, or conditions of employment of public employees.
1-12 (b) A contract entered into in violation of Subsection (a)
1-13 is void.
1-14 (c) An official of the state [or of a political subdivision
1-15 of the state] may not recognize a labor organization as the
1-16 bargaining agent for a group of public employees.
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,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.