Texas Local Government Code Title 5, Chapter 146 - Local Control Of Municipal Employment Matters In Certain Municipalities

• Texas Section 146.001 - Applicability
  (a) This chapter applies only to a municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more. (b) This chapter does not apply to: (1) firefighters...
• Texas Section 146.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Covered employee" means an employee of a municipality, other than a department head or a firefighter or police officer who is...
• Texas Section 146.003 - General Provisions Relating To Agreements And Recognition
  (a) A municipality may not be denied local control over the wages, salaries, rates of pay, hours of work, other terms and conditions of employment,...
• Texas Section 146.004 - Petition For Recognition: Election Or Action By Governing Body
  (a) Not later than the 30th day after the date the governing body of a municipality receives from an employee association a petition signed by...
• Texas Section 146.005 - Certification Election
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a certification election ordered under Section 146.004(a)(3) to determine whether an employee association represents a majority of the...
• Texas Section 146.006 - Election To Authorize Operating Under This Chapter
  (a) The governing body of a municipality that receives a petition for recognition under Section 146.004 may order an election to determine whether a public...
• Texas Section 146.007 - Change Or Modification Of Recognition
  (a) The municipal employees may modify or change the recognition of the employee association granted under this chapter by filing with the governing body of...
• Texas Section 146.008 - Strikes Prohibited
  (a) A municipal employee may not engage in a strike or organized work stoppage against this state or the municipality. (b) A municipal employee who...
• Texas Section 146.009 - Recognition Of Employee Association
  (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...
• Texas Section 146.010 - Selection Of Bargaining Agent; Bargaining Unit
  (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...
• Texas Section 146.011 - Protected Rights Of Employees
  A meet and confer agreement ratified under this chapter may not interfere with the right of a member of a bargaining unit to pursue allegations...
• Texas Section 146.012 - Open Records
  (a) A proposed meet and confer agreement and a document prepared and used by the municipality, including a public employer, in connection with the proposed...
• Texas Section 146.013 - Open Deliberations
  (a) Deliberations relating to a meet and confer agreement or proposed agreement under this chapter between representatives of the public employer and representatives of the...
• Texas Section 146.014 - Ratification And Enforceability Of Agreement
  (a) An agreement under this chapter is enforceable and binding on the public employer, the recognized employee association, and the employees covered by the meet...
• Texas Section 146.015 - Action Or Election To Repeal Authorization To Operate Under This Chapter
  (a) The governing body of a municipality that granted recognition of an employee association under Section 146.004 without conducting an election under Section 146.006 may...
• Texas Section 146.016 - Election To Repeal Agreement
  (a) Not later than the 45th day after the date a meet and confer agreement is ratified by the governing body of the municipality and...
• Texas Section 146.017 - Agreement Supersedes Conflicting Provisions
  A written meet and confer agreement ratified under this chapter preempts, during the term of the agreement and to the extent of any conflict, all...

Last modified: September 28, 2016