Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 142.060 · Subchapter B. LOCAL CONTROL OF POLICE OFFICER EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
SELECTION OF BARGAINING AGENT; BARGAINING UNIT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The public employer's chief executive officer or the chief executive officer's designee shall select one or more persons to represent the public employer as its sole and exclusive bargaining agent to meet and confer on issues related to the wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment of police officers by the municipality.
(b) A police officers association may designate one or more persons to negotiate or bargain on the association's behalf.
(c) A municipality's bargaining unit is composed of all the police officers of the municipality who are not the head of the law enforcement agency or exempt under Section 142.058(b).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1193 (H.B. 304), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2005.
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