By Naishtat, Keel                                     H.B. No. 2167
         76R7279 CAG-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the right of junior college district employees to
 1-3     voluntarily designate a portion of their earned income to certain
 1-4     organizations.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 130.010 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 130.010.  VOLUNTARY SALARY DEDUCTIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL
 1-9     ORGANIZATIONS.  (a)  An employee of a junior college district, on a
1-10     form prescribed by the junior college district, may authorize a
1-11     payroll deduction to be made from the employee's salary or wage
1-12     payment for a contribution to a professional organization.  The
1-13     authorization must:
1-14                 (1)  state the amount to be deducted; and
1-15                 (2)  direct the chief financial officer of the junior
1-16     college district to transfer the withheld funds to the organization
1-17     designated by the employee.
1-18           (b)  The payroll deduction must be accomplished in a manner
1-19     prescribed by the chief financial officer of the junior college
1-20     district.
1-21           (c)  The employee may change or revoke the authorization by
1-22     delivering written notice of the change or revocation, on a form
1-23     prescribed by the junior college district, to the chief financial
1-24     officer of the junior college district.  The written notice takes
 2-1     effect on the later of the effective date specified in the notice
 2-2     or the date the chief financial officer receives the notice.  The
 2-3     notice must be delivered in a manner prescribed by the chief
 2-4     financial officer.
 2-5           (d)  A junior college district may charge an employee who
 2-6     authorizes a voluntary salary deduction under this section an
 2-7     administrative fee not to exceed the lesser of:
 2-8                 (1)  the actual administrative cost for making the
 2-9     deduction; or
2-10                 (2)  the administrative fee the district charges for
2-11     other salary deductions.
2-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.