Bill Text: TX HB483 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a public hearing held on the issue of making a payment in excess of the compensation contracted for by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB483 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB483-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a public hearing held on the issue of making a payment in excess of the compensation contracted for by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB483 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB483-Comm_Sub.html
By: Aycock (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) | H.B. No. 483 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 2013; | ||
April 29, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Open | ||
Government; May 15, 2013, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 15, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to a public hearing held on the issue of making a payment | ||
in excess of the compensation contracted for by a political | ||
subdivision. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 180.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 180.007. PAYMENTS IN EXCESS OF CONTRACTUAL AMOUNT. | ||
(a) A political subdivision may not pay an employee or former | ||
employee more than an amount owed under a contract with the employee | ||
unless the political subdivision holds at least one public hearing | ||
under this section. | ||
(b) Notice must be given of the hearing in accordance with | ||
notice of a public meeting under Subchapter C, Chapter 551, | ||
Government Code. | ||
(c) The governing body of the political subdivision must | ||
state the following at the public hearing: | ||
(1) the reason the payment in excess of the | ||
contractual amount is being offered to the employee or former | ||
employee, including the public purpose that will be served by | ||
making the excess payment; and | ||
(2) the exact amount of the excess payment, the source | ||
of the payment, and the terms for the distribution of the payment | ||
that effect and maintain the public purpose to be served by making | ||
the excess payment. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a payment made by a political subdivision on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A payment made before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the payment | ||
was made, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
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