May 23, 2015      10:43 AM
Anti-union bill is dead
Chairman Cook will not schedule a vote in State Affairs; he says the Senate sent it to the House in badly flawed form and there is simply not enough time left in the session to do it right
Texas House lawmakers will not vote on
a bill that would weaken organized labor in the state even more than it already
is, Quorum Report learned Saturday
morning.
Today
is the last day for Senate bills to be considered by House committees. House
State Affairs Committee Chairman Byron
Cook, R-Corsicana, told us at Buzz Central that he will not
schedule a vote on SB 1968 because it is badly flawed and the Senate sent it to
the lower chamber for consideration way too late in the game.
The
bill would outlaw the practice of government workers being able to have their
union dues automatically deducted from their paychecks.
“There are serious problems with this bill,” Cook said. “I have a problem with
the teachers unions not being exempted,” he said and pointed out that police,
fire, and EMS were exempt from the bill as it was drafted in the Senate.
By Scott Braddock
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