Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB140 Compare Versions

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4	4	By Senator Shelnutt
5	5	RFD: Finance and Taxation Education
6	6	First Read: 23-Mar-23
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13	13	SYNOPSIS:
14	14	Under existing law, a local board of education
15	15	is required to adopt policies providing for certain
16	16	salary deductions for its employees.
17	17	This bill would require local boards of
18	18	education to adopt policies to provide for deductions
19	19	from employee salaries for the membership dues of
20	20	professional educators' associations.
21	21	A BILL
22	22	TO BE ENTITLED
23	23	AN ACT
24	24	Relating to public education; to amend Section 16-22-6,
25	25	Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for salary deductions for
26	26	membership dues of professional educators' associations.
27	27	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
28	28	Section 1. Section 16-22-6, Code of Alabama 1975, is
29	29	amended to read as follows:
30	30	"§16-22-6
31	31	(a)(1) Each local board of education and certain
32	32	postsecondary institutions shall adopt policies or regulations
33	33	which will provide for deductions from salaries of its
34	34	employees or groups of employees whenever a request is
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64	64	presented to the board or postsecondary institution by the
65	65	employees or groups. The deductions shall be made from
66	66	salaries earned in at least nine different pay periods and
67	67	shall be remitted to the appropriate company, association, or
68	68	organization as specified by the employees within 10 days
69	69	following each deduction. The deductions may be made for, but
70	70	not be limited to, savings plans, tax sheltered annuities, the
71	71	Public Employees' Individual Retirement Account Fund,
72	72	membership dues, voluntary contributions, and group insurance
73	73	premiums. Deductions for membership dues and voluntary
74	74	contributions shall be made based upon membership lists and
75	75	forms provided by the employees' organization. Such The lists
76	76	are toshould be corrected, updated, and returned to the
77	77	employees' designated organization(s) organization not later
78	78	than November 10 of each school year. The 1982-83 membership
79	79	dues and voluntary contribution authorized, with appropriate
80	80	yearly adjustments, shall be deducted for each succeeding year
81	81	unless the employee revokes the deductions in writing on or
82	82	before September 15 of that year. Voluntary contributions may
83	83	be revoked by giving a 30-day notice in writing. New
84	84	authorizations for deduction of dues, voluntary contributions,
85	85	or employee savings plans, must shall be submitted to the
86	86	payroll office and deductions shall begin with the pay period
87	87	next following the receipt of authorization. Upon termination
88	88	of employment, amounts owed under the authorization of the
89	89	employee shall be deducted from the employee's final pay due.
90	90	With the exception of membership dues and voluntary
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121	121	not be required to make more than one remittance of amounts
122	122	deducted during a pay period for a separate type of deduction.
123	123	Health insurance, life insurance, and tax sheltered annuities
124	124	shall be interpreted as separate types of deductions. When
125	125	amounts have been correctly deducted and remitted by the board
126	126	or postsecondary institution, the board or postsecondary
127	127	institution shall bear no further responsibility or liability
128	128	for subsequent transactions. No board or postsecondary
129	129	institution shall be liable for any error when acting in good
130	130	faith pursuant to this section.
131	131	(2) For the purposes of this section, membership dues
132	132	include membership dues paid to professional educators'
133	133	associations.
134	134	(b) This section shall not apply to any four-year
135	135	postsecondary institution."
136	136	Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first
137	137	day of the third month following its passage and approval by
138	138	the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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