By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 2888
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the prohibition of collective bargaining by certain
 1-3     political entities or subdivisions.
 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 CERTAIN PUBLIC
 1-8     EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED.  (a)  An official of the state or of a
 1-9     political subdivision, other than a municipality, [of the state]
1-10     may not enter into a collective bargaining contract with a labor
1-11     organization regarding wages, hours, or conditions of employment of
1-12     public employees.
1-13           (b)  A contract entered into in violation of Subsection (a)
1-14     is void.
1-15           (c)  An official of the state or of a political subdivision,
1-16     other than a municipality, [of the state] may not recognize a labor
1-17     organization as the bargaining agent for a group of public
1-18     employees.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.