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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Prohibits Payroll Deductions for Classroom Teacher Labor Organization Dues
Last action · March 10, 2025: Referred to Public EducationSponsor: Briscoe Cain
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What This Bill Proposed
Beginning September 1, 2025, Texas public school districts are prohibited from withholding labor union or professional organization dues from classroom teachers' salaries.
Changes how classroom teachers pay organization dues by eliminating direct payroll deductions for labor unions and similar employee groups.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Classroom teachers
School districts
School districts are prohibited from processing or contracting to process payroll deductions for classroom teacher labor organization dues.
Labor organizations
Labor unions and employee associations lose the ability to collect membership dues via automatic school district payroll deductions for classroom teachers.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 10, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Public Education
- Mar 10, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Nov 14, 2024HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy80Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz55Current news / social attention level
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