Bill Text: TX HB2509 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the business leave time account for a police officer employee organization in certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2509 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2509-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2509

AN ACT
relating to the business leave time account for a police officer
employee organization in certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 142.013(d), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) Donations to the business leave time account of an
employee organization by its members may be authorized in one of the
following ways:
(1) if the majority of the membership of the employee
organization has not affirmatively voted to require contributions
by the employee organization's members to its business leave time
account:
(A) a [The] police officer must authorize the
donation in writing on a form provided by the employee organization
and approved by the municipality; and
(B) after[. After] receiving the signed
authorization on an approved form, the municipality shall transfer
donated time to the account monthly until the municipality receives
the police officer's written revocation of the authorization; or
(2) if the majority of the membership of the employee
organization has affirmatively voted to require contributions by
the employee organization's members to its business leave time
account:
(A) except as provided by Paragraph (C), the
municipality shall transfer donated time to the employee
organization's business leave time account from the accumulated
vacation or compensatory time of each police officer who is a member
of the employee organization in the amount approved by vote of the
employee organization not to exceed the amount allowed under
Subsection (c);
(B) the municipality shall transfer the donated
time to the account monthly beginning with the first calendar month
that begins after the date of the employee organization vote
requiring contributions; and
(C) each year, during the period beginning on the
60th day before the anniversary of the first day of the first
calendar month in which donations were first transferred to the
business leave time account of the employee organization under
Paragraph (B) and ending on the 30th day before that anniversary, a
police officer who is a member of the employee organization may
inform the municipality in writing on a form provided by the
employee organization and approved by the municipality that the
police officer chooses to not donate time to the account during the
12-month period beginning with that anniversary.
SECTION 2. Section 142.013(i), Local Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2509 was passed by the House on May 2,
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2509 was passed by the Senate on May
20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor