Bill Text: TX HB3985 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to granting to the board of trustees of certain municipally owned utilities the authority to set the compensation of employees necessary to provide service and protect against interruption.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-31 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB3985 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3985-Introduced.html

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85R12019 GRM-F
By: Ortega H.B. No. 3985

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to granting to the board of trustees of certain
municipally owned utilities the authority to set the compensation
of employees necessary to provide service and protect against
interruption.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 552, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 552.915 to read as follows:
Sec. 552.915. PERSONNEL AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN BOARDS OF
TRUSTEES. (a) This section applies only to a board of trustees
described by Section 1502.070(a)(2)(B), Government Code.
(b) Notwithstanding any limitation provided by a home-rule
charter or any other policy of a municipal governing body, a board
of trustees has the exclusive authority to set the salary or
compensation of employees of its utility system in positions
classified as necessary to provide efficient service and protect
against service interruption.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.