Title LG, Local Government Code

Sec. 147.0032. CERTIFICATION ELECTION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a certification election ordered under Section 147.0031(a)(3) to determine whether the employee groups in the meet and confer team represent a majority of the covered police officers and a majority o…

Sec. 147.0033. ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE OPERATING UNDER THIS CHAPTER. (a) The governing body of a municipality that receives a petition for recognition under Section 147.0031 may order an election to determine whether a public employer may meet and confer under this chapter. (b) An …

Sec. 147.0034. WITHDRAWAL OF RECOGNITION. (a) The police officers and firefighters may withdraw the recognition of the meet and confer team granted under this chapter by filing with the governing body of the municipality a petition signed by a majority of all covered police offic…

Sec. 147.0035. RECOGNITION OF MEET AND CONFER TEAM. (a) A public employer in a municipality that chooses to meet and confer under this chapter shall recognize the meet and confer team that is recognized under Section 147.0031 or 147.0033 as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent…

Sec. 147.004. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO AGREEMENTS, RECOGNITION, AND STRIKES. (a) A municipality may not be denied local control over the wages, salaries, rates of pay, hours of work, and other terms of employment, or other state-mandated personnel issues, if the municipalit…

Sec. 147.005. PAYROLL DUES DEDUCTIONS. The municipality may not prevent automatic payroll deductions for dues paid to a firefighter employee group or police officer employee group. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 835 (H.B. 866), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.

Sec. 147.006. RECORDS AND MEETINGS. (a) An agreement made under this chapter is public information for purposes of Chapter 552, Government Code. The agreement and any document prepared and used by the municipality in connection with the agreement, except for materials created dur…

Sec. 147.007. ENFORCEABILITY OF AGREEMENT. (a) A written agreement made under this chapter between a municipality and the meet and confer team is enforceable and binding on the municipality, the meet and confer team, firefighter employee groups, police officer employee groups, an…

Sec. 147.008. ELECTION TO RATIFY AGREEMENT. (a) The meet and confer team shall call an election to ratify any agreement reached with the municipality if the agreement has been approved by five-sevenths of the members of the meet and confer team. (b) All firefighters and police of…

Sec. 147.009. ACTION OR ELECTION TO REPEAL AUTHORIZATION TO OPERATE UNDER THIS CHAPTER. (a) The governing body of a municipality that granted recognition of a meet and confer team under Section 147.0031 without conducting an election under Section 147.0033 may withdraw recognitio…

Sec. 147.010. ELECTION TO REPEAL AGREEMENT. (a) Not later than the 60th day after the date a meet and confer agreement is ratified by the governing body of the municipality and the firefighters and police officers under Section 147.008, a petition calling for the repeal of the ag…

Sec. 147.011. EFFECT ON EXISTING BENEFITS AND RIGHTS. (a) This chapter may not be construed to repeal any existing benefit provided by statute or ordinance concerning police officers' or firefighters' compensation, pensions, retirement plans, hours of work, conditions of employme…