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.