Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.009 · Chapter 146. LOCAL CONTROL OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
RECOGNITION OF EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A public employer in a municipality that chooses to meet and confer under this chapter shall recognize an association that is recognized under Section 146.004 or 146.005 as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for the covered employees.
(b) The public employer shall recognize the employee association until recognition of the association is withdrawn, in accordance with Section 146.007, by a majority of the municipal employees eligible to sign a petition for recognition.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1144 (H.B. 2866), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.146.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.004PETITION FOR RECOGNITION: ELECTION OR ACTION BY GOVERNING BODY.Printed as Section 146.004 or 146.005
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.005CERTIFICATION ELECTION.Printed as Section 146.004 or 146.005
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.007CHANGE OR MODIFICATION OF RECOGNITION.Printed as Section 146.007
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