By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 1636
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to municipal payroll deductions.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  The heading of Section 141.008, Local Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 141.008.  PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS PERMITTED IN CERTAIN
 1-7     MUNICIPALITIES.
 1-8           SECTION 2.  Section 141.008(a), Local Government Code, is
 1-9     amended to read as follows:
1-10           (a)  The governing body of a municipality with a population
1-11     of more than 10,000 may deduct from a municipal employee's monthly
1-12     salary or wages an amount requested in writing by the employee in
1-13     payment of membership dues to a bona fide employees' association
1-14     that does not claim the right to strike named by the employee.
1-15           SECTION 3.  Subchapter A, Chapter 141, Local Government Code,
1-16     is amended by adding Section 141.0081 to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 141.0081.  PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS REQUIRED IN CERTAIN
1-18     MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  The governing body of a municipality with a
1-19     population of more than 50,000 shall deduct from a municipal
1-20     employee's monthly salary or wages an amount requested in writing
1-21     by the employee in payment of membership dues to a bona fide
1-22     employees' association that does not claim the right to strike
1-23     named by the employee if the municipality permits deductions for a
1-24     purpose other than for payment:
 2-1                 (1)  for a charitable purpose;
 2-2                 (2)  for health insurance;
 2-3                 (3)  of taxes; or
 2-4                 (4)  of a deduction required by law.
 2-5           (b)  The provisions of Sections 141.008(b)-(e) apply to
 2-6     payroll deductions made under this section.
 2-7           (c)  On or after the first anniversary of the date the
 2-8     municipality begins making payroll deductions under this section, a
 2-9     municipality may discontinue making payroll deductions if the
2-10     governing body, after a public hearing, finds that the requirement
2-11     to make payroll deductions is not serving the best interest of the
2-12     municipality and provides specific reasons for its conclusion.
2-13           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.