SB140INTRODUCED
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U8TRGX-1
By Senator Shelnutt
RFD: Finance and Taxation Education
First Read: 23-Mar-23
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SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, a local board of education
is required to adopt policies providing for certain
salary deductions for its employees.
This bill would require local boards of
education to adopt policies to provide for deductions
from employee salaries for the membership dues of
professional educators' associations.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to public education; to amend Section 16-22-6,
Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for salary deductions for
membership dues of professional educators' associations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 16-22-6, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง16-22-6
(a)(1) Each local board of education and certain
postsecondary institutions shall adopt policies or regulations
which will provide for deductions from salaries of its
employees or groups of employees whenever a request is
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presented to the board or postsecondary institution by the
employees or groups. The deductions shall be made from
salaries earned in at least nine different pay periods and
shall be remitted to the appropriate company, association, or
organization as specified by the employees within 10 days
following each deduction. The deductions may be made for, but
not be limited to, savings plans, tax sheltered annuities, the
Public Employees' Individual Retirement Account Fund,
membership dues, voluntary contributions, and group insurance
premiums. Deductions for membership dues and voluntary
contributions shall be made based upon membership lists and
forms provided by the employees' organization. Such The lists
are toshould be corrected, updated, and returned to the
employees' designated organization(s) organization not later
than November 10 of each school year. The 1982-83 membership
dues and voluntary contribution authorized, with appropriate
yearly adjustments, shall be deducted for each succeeding year
unless the employee revokes the deductions in writing on or
before September 15 of that year. Voluntary contributions may
be revoked by giving a 30-day notice in writing. New
authorizations for deduction of dues, voluntary contributions,
or employee savings plans, must shall be submitted to the
payroll office and deductions shall begin with the pay period
next following the receipt of authorization. Upon termination
of employment, amounts owed under the authorization of the
employee shall be deducted from the employee's final pay due.
With the exception of membership dues and voluntary
contributions, the board or postsecondary institution shall
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not be required to make more than one remittance of amounts
deducted during a pay period for a separate type of deduction.
Health insurance, life insurance, and tax sheltered annuities
shall be interpreted as separate types of deductions. When
amounts have been correctly deducted and remitted by the board
or postsecondary institution, the board or postsecondary
institution shall bear no further responsibility or liability
for subsequent transactions. No board or postsecondary
institution shall be liable for any error when acting in good
faith pursuant to this section.
(2) For the purposes of this section, membership dues
include membership dues paid to professional educators'
associations.
(b) This section shall not apply to any four-year
postsecondary institution."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first
day of the third month following its passage and approval by
the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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