Bill Text: TX HB2939 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a certification election to recognize a police officers association as the bargaining agent for certain police officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-31 - Left pending in committee [HB2939 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2939-Introduced.html
| By: Muñoz, Jr. | H.B. No. 2939 | |
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| relating to a certification election to recognize a police officers | ||
| association as the bargaining agent for certain police officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 142.054, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) Notwithstanding a procedure agreed to by the parties | ||
| under this section, a police officers association may not be | ||
| recognized as the association to represent a majority of the | ||
| covered police officers unless a majority of covered officers | ||
| voting at the election vote in favor of the recognition. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a certification election ordered under Section 142.053(a)(3), | ||
| Local Government Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
